Event: Reading and book signing, PERSIAN GIRLS, memoir,

Date and time: Friday, May 25, 7:00 P.M.

Place: D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla
Info:(858) 456-1800

PERSIAN GIRLS, (Penguin, October 2006)
In a story of ambition, oppression, hope, heartache, and sisterhood, Persian Girls traces Rachlin’s coming of age in Iran under the late Shah-and her domineering father-her tangled family life, and her relationship with her older sister, and unexpected soul mate, Pari. Both girls refused to accept traditional roles prescribed for them under Muslim cultural laws. They devoured forbidden books. They had secret romances. But then things quickly changed. Pari was forced by her parents to marry a wealthy suitor, a cruel man who kept her a prisoner in her own home. After narrowly avoiding an unhappy match herself with a man her parents chose for her, Nahid came to America, where she found literary success. Back in Iran, however, Pari’s dreams fell to pieces

Of course not all we have to deal with are Iranian women, something very simple and un-interesting.

Beside it’s always more interesting to read about the poor oppressed women in Iran than the men oppressing them.

FREE and open to the public

Event: Moms Who Rock! with a panel of authors who will read from and sign their books.

Time: May 12, Saturday, 2:00 P.M.
Location: Borders Bookstore
10 Columbus Circle (in the Time-Warner Complex)
Manhattan
Phone: 212.823.9775

PERSIAN GIRLS, (Penguin, October 2006)
In a story of ambition, oppression, hope, heartache, and sisterhood, Persian Girls traces Rachlin’s coming of age in Iran under the late Shah-and her domineering father-her tangled family life, and her relationship with her older sister, and unexpected soul mate, Pari. Both girls refused to accept traditional roles prescribed for them under Muslim cultural laws. They devoured forbidden books. They had secret romances. But then things quickly changed. Pari was forced by her parents to marry a wealthy suitor, a cruel man who kept her a prisoner in her own home. After narrowly avoiding an unhappy match herself with a man her parents chose for her, Nahid came to America, where she found literary success. Back in Iran, however, Pari’s dreams fell to pieces.

Reviews:
NPR: THE WORLD Slected by Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing Program as one of the best four books of 2006. “If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had ever known—her aunt, as it happens—and returned to a family in which the prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the artist is filled with light.”

Matt Beynon Rees, contributing editor, Time: “Through the touching story of two sisters, Persian Girls unfolds the entire drama of modern Iran. It’s a beautiful memoir– it paints the exotic scents and traditions of Tehran with the delicacy of a great novel. If you want to understand Iran, read Nahid Rachlin.”

For more click on Nahid’s website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com