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Saffron skyGelareh Asayesh

Saffron sky

1999222 pages
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"Gelareh Asayesh is young and talented - a journalist who has worked at the nation's best newspapers, an American success story. But like so many millions of American immigrants, she says of her family, "To this day, we do not talk of those first years in America. We do not acknowledge how they have shaped us into what we are today.""--BOOK JACKET. "Saffron Sky is the story of the author's passion for constructing an American life that includes the spiritual fervor and the deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her daily existence in Iran until her family's immigration to Chapel Hill,…

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2 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2000
    Beacon Press · 222 pages · 9780807072110
  • Other · English · 1999
    Beacon Press · 222 pages · 9780807072103
BiographyImmigrantsIranian American womenIranian AmericansSocial conditionsSocial life and customsIranians, united statesFlorida, biography