The Persians Women's Fiction From the New York Times

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent

but in Alyan’s hands

“Entirely irresistible

and where one of the country’s most remarkable Black utopian experiments got its start

We meet her caring

The Persians Women's Fiction From the New York TimesAn irreverent and deeply felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, theyre nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic