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Summary:

"Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're 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-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth's daughters left for America in 1979: Shirin, a charismatic yet outrageous event planner in Houston who considers herself the family's future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist-turned-housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there's the other granddaughter Bita, the self-righteous but lost law student spending her days in New York City eating pancakes and quietly giving away her belongings. When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family's brittle status quo is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a grand but half-baked quest to restore the family name. But what does that even mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Will they ever realize that life is more than just an old story?"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Mahloudji, Sanam, 1977- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Persians: a novel [by Mahloudji, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Persians [by Mahloudji, S.] (First Scribner hardcover edition; New York : Scribner, 2025 — ISBN 9781668015810; LCCN 2024038242)

Subjects:

Iranian Americans — Fiction

Women — Fiction

Families — Fiction

Iran — History — 20th century — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PS3613.A3493338 P47 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781668015810 (electronic bk.)
1668015811 (electronic bk.)
9781668015797 [Invalid]
166801579X [Invalid]
9781668015803 [Invalid]
1668015803 [Invalid]

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31363010 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp308070703