Title: Moonlight on the avenue of faith
First published: 1999
Description: "The first voice we hear in Gina B. Nahai's second novel is that of Lili, the grown daughter of a miraculous mother. When Lili was 5 and living in the Jewish ghetto of Tehran, her mother, Roxanna, "had grown wings, one night when the darkness was the color of her dreams, and flown into the star-studded night of Iran that claimed her." Thirteen years would pass, Lili informs us, before she would find her mother again. This short introduction serves as a framing device for the story of Roxanna's life, a life begun as a "bad-luck" child. According to her sister, Miriam the Moon, she "had been a runaway before she ever became a wife or a mother, before she came into existence or was even conceived."
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish women, Mothers and daughters, Jews, New York Times reviewed, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, general, Jews, fiction, Middle east, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, California, fiction
Places: Iran, Los Angeles, Tehran, California, Los Angeles (Calif.), Tehran (Iran)
LC classification: PS3552.A6713 M66 1999