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The Daughter Who Walked Away by Kimia Eslah is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Estranged from her abusive parents as a teenager, Taraneh Pourani overcame poverty, isolation and self-hatred to build a happy home with her loving husband and children. Triggered by her young sons annual visit with their grandparents, Taraneh becomes psychologically distressed. She begins to doubt her memories and question her decision to remain distanced from her aging parents. A journey into Taranehs family history reveals three generations of unaddressed mental illness and unresolved childhood trauma. Due to poverty in early twentieth-century Iran, Taranehs grandmother, Batoul, is married at the age of nine and sent to live with her husbands family. Ashamed and traumatized, Batoul raises her children to expect hardships and to endure them in secret. The seeds of dysfunction are planted in Mojegan, Taranehs mother. Mojegan is a nurse in Tehran in the 1960s when she marries the charming, but alcoholic and impulsive, Reza. She stands by Reza throughout their marriage, even after he abruptly kicks out their teenage daughter, Taraneh. A powerful and beautiful debut novel by Kimia Eslah, The Daughter Who Walked Away explores the lives of three Iranian women, across three generations,

Who reads The Daughter Who Walked Away?

Author

Kimia Eslah

Publisher

Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781773631660

Category

work of fiction