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Porochista Khakpour author of SONS AND OTHER FLAMMABLE OBJECTS: A NOVEL

a personal essay in The Daily Beast

February 11, 2009, 12:53 pm

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-11/what-i-saw-at-the-revolution/

It's all about the Iranian Revolution (it's the 30th anniversary), an event that totally altered the course of my life. . . even though I was one when it went down. The essay is actually about its aftermath and my family's early life in the Eighties in the Los Angeles diaspora.
Let me know what you think. (I've never really laid out my entire early life like that, not to mention my entire family's)