Elizabeth Eslami's Blog, page 9
February 16, 2010
Piece on Oregon Wolf Sanctuaries
I have a new travel piece on Western Oregon's wolf sanctuaries in Matador. It was a joy to research and write, and a highlight for me personally as well. How often do you get kissed by a wolf? Read it here.
January 26, 2010
Haiti, Backlash, and the Call to Inaction
With a backlash, we're responding to that which rides a surge of undeserved popularity. An obscenely lauded sports team we're certain got lucky at the eleventh hour. An actor collecting one too many awards, his shoulders practiced in a false shrug of humility. The resulting backlash is our collective smackdown, a way of putting the successful entity on watch. We see the world rewarding you unjustly, and we're going to do our best to turn the tide of your success. We're going to spread th...
January 23, 2010
Review in The Boston Globe
'Bone Worship' and the human family
"The title of Elizabeth Eslami's debut novel comes from a ritual that elephants perform. When an elephant dies, its family members cover the body with brush and soil, revisiting the bones for years, caressing them with their trunks. A haunting symbol of remembrance, bone worship becomes the organizing principle of Eslami's investigation of familial and cultural memory.
When Jasmine Fahroodhi fails out of the University of Chicago in her final semester, she re...
"The title of Elizabeth Eslami's debut novel comes from a ritual that elephants perform. When an elephant dies, its family members cover the body with brush and soil, revisiting the bones for years, caressing them with their trunks. A haunting symbol of remembrance, bone worship becomes the organizing principle of Eslami's investigation of familial and cultural memory.
When Jasmine Fahroodhi fails out of the University of Chicago in her final semester, she re...
January 21, 2010
Bone Worship Reviewed in Eugene Weekly
My favorite alt-weekly just published a lovely review of Bone Worship! Have a look here.
January 19, 2010
Don't ask me how this happened...
...but the 16 year old in me is jumping for joy.
The Daily Beast. Timothy Hutton. And yours truly.
All right here.
The Daily Beast. Timothy Hutton. And yours truly.
All right here.
January 5, 2010
Review in The Inkslinger
I can't tell you how much I love this review of Bone Worship from The Inkslinger!
"Elizabeth Eslami's debut novel is a culture clash from the get-go, but it's a beautifully written clash filled with the most familiar kinds of yearning, both familial and cultural.Jasmine is the prickly college dropout daughter of an Iranian father and an American mother. She is uncertain about what she wants, or if indeed she wants anything at all, but her father has plans for her new path—a hastegar, or an arr...
"Elizabeth Eslami's debut novel is a culture clash from the get-go, but it's a beautifully written clash filled with the most familiar kinds of yearning, both familial and cultural.Jasmine is the prickly college dropout daughter of an Iranian father and an American mother. She is uncertain about what she wants, or if indeed she wants anything at all, but her father has plans for her new path—a hastegar, or an arr...
January 4, 2010
The San Francisco Chronicle cites the first sentence of Bone Worship!
The San Francisco Chronicle has listed the first sentence of my novel as one of their top "grabbers," along with one by Joyce Carol Oates! Pretty neat, even though a "grabber" sounds more like a new fast food snack item than literature. :)
Have a look here.
Have a look here.
December 20, 2009
Bone Worship: The Book Trailer!
Yay! Check out the book trailer for Bone Worship!!!
December 12, 2009
Bone Worship in Iranian.com
In conjunction with We Are All Iran, Iranian.com has published an excerpt from Bone Worship here.
December 2, 2009
Great Review in Booklist!
Booklist says of Bone Worship:
"A realistic and heartfelt depiction of a young woman at a crossroads wondering "What's next?" Eslami's debut deftly limns a young woman's exploration of her roots, her attempts to understand her father, and how, to her own surprise, she finds a way to navigate both the expectations of her parents and her own burgeoning desires."
"A realistic and heartfelt depiction of a young woman at a crossroads wondering "What's next?" Eslami's debut deftly limns a young woman's exploration of her roots, her attempts to understand her father, and how, to her own surprise, she finds a way to navigate both the expectations of her parents and her own burgeoning desires."
