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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life

The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life

by JasminDarznik (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

One day shortly after her father's death, when Jasmin Darznik is helping her mother move house, a photograph falls from a stack of old letters. The girl in it is her mother. She is wearing a wedding veil, and at her side stands a man whom Jasmin has never seen before. Despite Jasmin's pleas, her mother Lili refuses to say anything about the photograph, and Jasmin returns home frustrated and confused. But months later, she receives the first of ten cassette tapes from her mother revealing a wrenching hidden story of her family's true origins in Iran: Lili's troubled history of abuse and neglect, and a daughter she was forced to abandon in order to escape that life. The final tape reveals that Jasmin's sister, Sara - the Good Daughter - is still living in Iran. In this sweeping, poignant and beautifully written memoir, Jasmin skilfully weaves the stories of three generations of Iranian women into a unique tale of one family's struggle for freedom. The result is an enchanting and unforgettable story of secrets, betrayal, and the unbreakable mother-daughter bond.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 03 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 0434019089
ISBN 13: 9780434019083
Book Overview: A poignant and beautifully written memoir of three generations of women, beginning in Iran nearly a century ago.

Media Reviews
'Deeply affecting...How can you not feel for these women? Once you read this book, you will see Iran and Iranians with new eyes. A brilliant debut.' Anita Amirrezvani, author of The Blood of Flowers Intricate, fierce, and genuine, The Good Daughter is a bold and unflinching exploration of faith and family, of love and alienation, of censure and forgiveness. Jasmin Darznik's graceful prose delves with razor-edged introspection into the darkened passageways of her mother's past, and in the process, fulfills the highest ambition of the memoir as a genre: to tell a personal story that, by virtue of its honesty, sheds light on an all too universal truth. -Gina B. Nahai, author of Caspian Rain and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Author Bio
Jasmin Darznik was born in Tehran, Iran and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University.Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications.She has taught Iranian literature at the University of Virginia and is now a professor of English and creative writing at Washington and Lee University.She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.