Saffron Sky Paperback by Gelareh Asayesh

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (2000-10-19)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807072110
• Item Weight: 277.83 grams
• Dimensions: 21.59 x 14.12 x 1.27 cm

This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty.

About the Author

Gelareh Asayesh has worked at The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and The Baltimore Sun, and she has also written for The Washington Post and other national publications. She lives with her family in St. Petersburg, Florida.