The good daughter by jasmin darznik6/30/2023 ![]() Staring at the photograph, Darznik realizes that this is her own mother, Lili. She stands awkwardly next to a man wearing a tuxedo and a grey fedora. ![]() She is made-up and dressed in bridal satin. The young girl in the photo is no more than 14 years old. ![]() I might easily have mistaken it for just another old photograph, but this one was nothing like the others." Its edges were tattered and a long white crease coursed through the image. "Like all the photographs that came with us when we left Iran," Darznik begins,"this one was as supple and as thick as leather. These women have forged ahead into what one might call "Mary Karr territory" - the kind of devil-may-care, tell-all recollections that jumpstarted the current explosion of memoirs in this country. Exile seems to have emboldened these writers, giving them the courage to dispense with the traditional Iranian idea of abroo - the age-old obligation of saving face at all costs. THE PAST DECADE HAS seen a surge of memoirs written by Iranian woman in exile, many of whom share their stories at the peril of angering or shaming the clan. ![]()
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