{"product_id":"the-persians-9781668015797","title":"The Persians","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth's daughters left for America in 1979: Shirin, a charismatic yet outrageous event planner in Houston who considers herself the family's future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist-turned-housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there's the other granddaughter Bita, the self-righteous but lost law student spending her days in New York City eating pancakes and quietly giving away her belongings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family's brittle status quo is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a grand but half-baked quest to restore the family name. But what does that even mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Will they ever realize that life is more than just an old story? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are five women who are pulled apart and brought together by revolution. Here is their past, present, and future. By turns satirical and philosophical, traveling from the 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s, \u003ci\u003eThe Persians\u003c\/i\u003e is a mordantly funny, heartbreakingly sad, and profoundly searching portrait of a family in crisis at the turn of the century, an American family saga reinvented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sanam Mahloudji\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.38w x 1.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668015797","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397993988233,"sku":"9781668015797","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7d552fa3-79ed-4e40-97eb-8aae84fd3f0d.jpg?v=1740472664","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-persians-9781668015797","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}