num_pages: 240
description: This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty.
language: English
title: Saffron Sky: A Life between Iran and America
titlecomplete: Saffron Sky: A Life between Iran and America
genres: Sociology, Memoir, Asia, Religion, Biography Memoir, Iran, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 172
publisher: Beacon Press