Porochista Khakpour, Author . Grove/Atlantic $24 (398p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1853-0
Khakpour builds her luminously intelligent debut around the travails of an Iranian-American family caught in the feverish and paranoid currents immediately after 9/11. Darius Adam and his wife, Laleh (who, much to Darius’s disgust,...
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Porochista Khakpour. Bloomsbury, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62040-304-4
The Last Illusion is Khakpour’s second novel, but it has the larky-yet-self-serious aura of a first effort. We follow Zal, born eerily pale in rural Iran, and is caged and raised as a bird by his horrified mother. Adopted and gradually socialized by
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Porochista Khakpour. HarperPerennial, $15.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-242873-8
Khakpour (The Last Illusion) incisively tells of living with a mystery illness that is eventually diagnosed as late-stage Lyme disease. From the time she was about five, she recalls feeling something was always “off” inside her body. From insomnia...
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Porochista Khakpour. Vintage, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-56471-3
In this wonderful essay collection, novelist Khakpour (The Last Illusion) passionately and wittily explores the writing life and the Iranian-American experience. Not surprisingly, political concerns abound; Khakpour recalls, early in the Trump...
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Porochista Khakpour. Pantheon, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4790-9
Khakpour’s wry latest (following the essay collection Brown Album) introduces the Milanis, a wealthy Persian family living in Los Angeles. The Milanis have courted fame ever since patriarch Al struck frozen food gold in the 1980s with Pizzabomme (“li
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