Saffron Sky
$2499
Author: Gelareh Asayesh
Paperback:240 pages
Publisher:Beacon Press (October 19, 2000)
Language:English
ISBN-10:0807072117
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.