Jasmin Darznik, Grand Central, $24.99 (324p) ISBN 978-0-446-53497-0
When Darznik (an English professor at Washington and Lee University) stumbles upon a photograph of her mother appareled and made up as a bride with a man not Darznik's father, she catches a glimpse into her mother's hidden Iranian history, a past...
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Jasmin Darznik. Ballantine, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-18231-0
In this sumptuous debut novel, Darznik (The Good Daughter, a memoir) retells the fleeting life of a real-life Iranian feminist, poet, and director. In this imagining—told with the vulnerability and confidence of a memoir—Forugh Farrokhzad grows up...
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Jasmin Darznik. Ballantine, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-12943-2
Darznik returns after Song of a Captive Bird, about Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, with another portrait of a historical creative woman, this time photographer Dorothea Lange. As things open in 1918, Dorothea has left her native New Jersey at 23...
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