Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America

"Beguiling. . . . An American manifesto, if ever there was one."

-Wendy Law-Yone, The Washington Post Book World

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 until her family immigrated to North Carolina. Asayesh 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 …