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READING AND BOOKSIGNING FROM MEMOIR, PERSIAN GIRLS, BY NAHID RACHLIN
May 25, Friday, 2:00 P.M.
Reading, discussion, book signing, PERSIAN GIRLS, memoir
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Info: 858 534 4618
Persian Girls, Nahid Rachlin’s recently published memoir about her earlier life in Iran, has garnered rave reviews. Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing Program, rates it as one of the best four books of 2006.
In addition to Persian Girls, Nahid Rachlin’s publications include four novels -- Jumping Over Fire (City Lights), Foreigner (W.W. Norton), Married to a Stranger (E.P. Dutton), and The Heart’s Desire (City Lights) -- and a collection of short stories, Veils (City Lights). Her short stories have appeared in about fifty magazines, and several of her stories have been anthologized. Her essays and reviews have been published in Natural History Magazine, The New York Times, and Newsday.
Nahid Rachlin has taught at Barnard College and Yale University. She is currently teaching at the New School University and will be teaching at the Geneva Writers Conference in February 2008.
From: Nahid Rachlin <nahidr@rcn.com>
Posted by 7rooz () at May 25, 2007 2:00 AM
