![]() In 1981, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi shows her best friend, Ponneh, an issue of Life Magazine dated January 22, 1971. ![]() And where Saba’s world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister’s experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. ![]() Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. But her parents have taught her that “all fate is written in the blood,” and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. ![]() So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. ![]() A magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. ![]()
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