Tara Bahrampour
To See and See Again
A Life in Iran and America
$22.95, £15.95 paperback
9780520223547
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357 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 4 b/w photographs
August 2000, Available worldwide
Also in: Middle Eastern Studies; Autobiography & Memoir
August 2000, Available worldwide
Also in: Middle Eastern Studies; Autobiography & Memoir
A compelling and intimate exploration of the complexity of a bicultural immigrant experience, To See and See Again traces three generations of an Iranian (and Iranian-American) family undergoing a century of change--from the author's grandfather, a feudal lord with two wives; to her father, a freespirited architect who marries an American pop singer; to Bahrampour herself, who grows up balanced precariously between two cultures and comes of age watching them clash on the nightly news.
"Much more than another well-told life story. A profound reflection on the immigrant journey, To See and See Again is also a veiled and subtle--and in those ways highly Persian--defense of a place and a people that Americans have vilified for so long. . . . Ms. Bahrampour has taken the reader along with her on a journey worthy of Scheherezade, to the private quarters where a henna artist paints love poems on the bride's thigh for the groom to read on the wedding night; to turquoise mosques, desert forts, steamy coffee houses and, most vividly of all, into the warm and hidden places of the heart."—Geraldine Brooks, Wall Street Journal
"Bahrampour has written a fascinating, often moving account of her life on the boundary between two very different cultures."—Adrienne Edgar, New York Times Book Review
"A memoir becomes rich indeed when it not only leads us through a life but also enhances our understanding of the cultural, political, and social character of the world influencing that life. To our benefit, To See and See Again does this with elegance."—Susanne Pari, San Francisco Chronicle
"Both entertaining and deeply emotional."—Rana Dogar, Newsweek
"Sometimes painful, sometimes soothing in its honesty about a family uprooted."—the Portland Oregonian
"Bahrampour has written a fascinating, often moving account of her life on the boundary between two very different cultures."—Adrienne Edgar, New York Times Book Review
"A memoir becomes rich indeed when it not only leads us through a life but also enhances our understanding of the cultural, political, and social character of the world influencing that life. To our benefit, To See and See Again does this with elegance."—Susanne Pari, San Francisco Chronicle
"Both entertaining and deeply emotional."—Rana Dogar, Newsweek
"Sometimes painful, sometimes soothing in its honesty about a family uprooted."—the Portland Oregonian
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