When skateboards will be free
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Edition: Dial Press Trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks; Dial Press Trade Paperback
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780385340694
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Barn- och ungdomsår; Socialists; Biography; Iranian Americans; Socialister; Biografi; Iranier; Socialist Workers Party
Description: "With a gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir. Saïd's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother had one thing in common: their unshakable conviction that the workers' revolution was coming. Separated since their son was nine months old, they each pursued a dream of the perfect socialist society. Pinballing with his mother between makeshift Pittsburgh apartments, falling asleep at party meetings, longing for the luxuries he's taught to despise, Saïd waits for the revolution that never arrives, while his long-absent father quixotically runs as a socialist candidate for president in an Iran about to fall under the ayatollahs. Then comes the hostage crisis, and Saïd is suddenly forced to confront the combustible stew of his identity."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes a Reader's guide: pages 295-306.