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There comes a point when the secrets you've kept most hidden become the stories you must tell. I was born in Iran and moved with my family to the U.S. when I was five. Even after earning a PhD in English from Princeton, I never considered becoming an author. But accidentally finding out about my mother's secret life changed that. In 2011, I published my first book, The Good Daughter, which tells the story of how my mother was married at thirteen and forced to give up a child, a half-sister I never knew. That book changed my life. Since then I have been in pursuit of lost or forgotten stories--and the pleasure of disappearing into other worlds through writing.


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Saeculum, A Different Measure of Time

Dressed up in Persian garb with my grandmother Aziz in the 1980s
Every March when I was growing up, my grandmother grew sprouts for the Persian New Year, and a feeling of renewal would fall over the house.

In a life thousands of miles away from the home we’d left and still imagined we’d return to one day, this was the first ritual with which we observed our new year, a celebration of the first day o
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I haven’t seen such a thorough treatment of this topic. The authors go far beyond the obvious and offer tips and ideas that even seasoned writers can use. I wish I’d had this book when I started out reading in public!
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“I was a woman and I couldn't speak with the voice of a man, because it was not my voice - not true and not my own. But there was more to it than that. By writing in a woman's voice I wanted to say that a woman, too, is a human being. To say that we, too, have the right to breathe, to cry out, and to sing.”
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message 1: by Donna

Donna Jasmin, thank you for accepting my friend request on Goodreads. I hope I can win your book, SONG OF A CAPTIVE BIRD. Looks to be a very good read.
Happy New Year.
Donna


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