![]() ![]() As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities available to her as a woman in Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. So when Saba finds herself abandoned, alone with her father in Iran, she is certain that her mother and twin have moved to America without her.Īll her life, Saba has been taught that 'fate is written in the blood,' which convinces her that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. They keep lists of English words and collect contraband copies of Life magazine and Bob Dylan cassettes. Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, 11-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are fascinated by America. ![]() ![]() A book about identity - about finding your own and creating what you think you're missing. The heart-warming and uplifting novel about an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live on. ![]()
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