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• We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and…
• Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was…
• I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave…
• I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight…
• There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who…
• I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in…
• My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate,…

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