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2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Traditional Nonfiction
2021 Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards
Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community-primarily the disparate religions and cultures.
In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Seemingly overnight she went from living a carefree life of wearing miniskirts and attending high school to listening to fanatic diatribes, forced to wear the hijab, and hiding in the basement as Iraqi bombs fell over the city. She eventually fled to the United States in 1987 with her husband and children after, in part, witnessing her six-year-old daughter's indoctrination into radical Islamic politics at school. At the heart of Saper's story is a harrowing and instructive tale of how extremist ideologies seized a Westernized, affluent country and transformed it into a fundamentalist Islamic society.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Historical Note
Part 1. Hope, 1961-1978
1. The Best of Both Worlds
2. My Iranian Mothers
3. The Shah's Spectacular Parties
4. Cracks along the Avenue
5. England
Part 2. Fear, 1978-1979
6. Homecoming
7. When Jacqueline Met Ebi
8. Nightly Calls of "Allahu-akbar"
9. The Man in the Moon
10. The King Is Crying
11. Utopia?
Part 3. Adapt, 1979-1980
12. My First Referendum
13. Executions
14. My Jewish Wedding in the Islamic Republic
15. "Death to America"
16. Invasion
17. The Sacred Defense
Part 4. Veil, 1981-1985
18. "Sister, Guard Your Hijab"
19. The Downhill
20. The Second-Class Citizen
21. Public Life, Private Self
22. Half of the World's Beauty
23. Front of the War, Front of the Plane
24. "The Martyr"
Part 5. Resolve, 1986-1987
25. Welcome to First Grade
26. Why Is This Night Different?
27. The View from the Rooftop
28. Flight
Epilogue
Glossary of Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Reading Group Discussion Guide
