During the summer of 1950, Forugh’s passion for poetry takes flight-and tradition seeks to clip her wings.įorced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel-gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother’s walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. “A complex and beautiful rendering of vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of the power and purpose of art, and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out.”- The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)Īll through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society’s expectations to find her voice and her destiny.
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