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My Name Is Iran : A Memoir by Davar Ardalan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is My Name Is Iran : A Memoir about?

A century of family tales from two beloved but divided homelands, Iran and America Drawing on her remarkable personal history, NPR producer Davar Ardalan brings us the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and revolution. Her American grandmother's love affair with an Iranian physician took her from New York to Iran in 1931. Ardalan herself moved from San Francsico to rural Iran in 1964 with her Iranian American parents who barely spoke Farsi. After her parents' divorce, Ardalan joined her father in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he had gone to make a new life; however improbably, after high school, Ardalan decided to move back to an Islamic Iran. When she arrived, she discovered a world she hardly recognized, and one which demands a near-complete renunciation of the freedoms she experienced in the West. In time, she and her young family make the opposite migration and discover the difficulties, however paradoxical, inherent in living a free life in America.

Who reads My Name Is Iran : A Memoir?

Author

Davar Ardalan

Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805087277

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.31 / 5 (182 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14