About This Book
When she is five years old, Lili, the narrator of this epic a tale, watches her mother, Roxanna the Angel, throw hers balcony of their house on the Avenue of Faith. Roxanna farewell, no explanation. Her family's subsequent search for no body, no sign of a fall, no trace of an escape. The only wit Roxanna's disappearance, Lili will spend the next thirteen years loo for her mother, wondering if she is alive, wondering why she left.
This is the remarkable tale that follows Roxanna, born as a "bad-luc child" in the Jewish ghetto of Tehran, through the opulent world o Iran's aristocracy, into the whorehouses of Turkey and at last, to Lo Angeles--the city of exiles--where she and Lili are reunited. Gina B Nahai tells the story of a courageous circle of women standing on th edge of the past, reshaping their lives in America, the land of chance and choices.
