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"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."
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Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, Gina Nahai
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- Title
- Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gina Nahai
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN10
- 1508493669
- ISBN13
- 9781508493662
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Women, Culture and Society, Jews, Magical Realism, Jewish Literature, Sagas, Family secrets, Iran, Traditions, Mothers and Daughters, Women in Islam, Iranian Literature
- First published
- 1999
- Original title
- Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- 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."