In this powerful story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and
motherhood, Fariba Vafi gives readers a portrait of one woman s struggle
to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. The narrator, a housewife
and young mother living in a low-income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells
upon her husband Amir s desire to immigrate to Canada. His peripatetic
lifestyle underscores her own sense of inertia. When he finally slips away,
the young woman is forced to raise the children alone and care for her
ailing mother.
Vafi s brilliant minimalist style showcases the...