Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

In 1975, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political u...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2015
Series:Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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