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A novel on the Islamic Revolution whose heroine is an Iranian-American woman. She marries an Iranian army officer, but his grandmother is determined to scuttle the match and the officer is sent to the front while she lands in jail. Eventually they are reunited and escape to America.
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"Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished. Caught in the middle is their mother, Shireen, torn between her fierce love...