Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans

I love classic books, as I’ve already said in other posts. At the same time, I know that there are a ton of incredibly good works of literature that never quite make the hit list.

This book was co-edited by one of my professors in college, Persis Karim, who has become my friend as well. She’s a mover and a shaker, and I didn’t even know she had been involved in this book when we met. She was already on to other things.

Someone else bought it for me as a present.

It’s an anthology, so you can open it up to anywhere and just read for a little bit. Some of the pieces are a little hard to understand.

But some of them grab me by the throat, they are so beautiful and evocative of things I don’t understand. Some of them make me gasp and cry.

I’m really glad I have this book. I think I will eventually read everything in it. It wouldn’t be somehting I want to just sit down and read straight through. It’s too strong for that.