%0 Journal Article
%T Persian Girls
%A Nahid Rachlin
%J American Studies Journal
%D 2011
%I American Studies Journal
%X Nahid Rachlin spent her childhood in Iran under the Shah regime. In the following paragraphs that are drawn from her memoir Persian Girls, she introduces the reader to a hidden and risky world of bookstores in Tehran during that very period. Hence, she openly describes how she was ˇ°drawn to books, hoping to find answers to what I could not make sense of.ˇ± Ultimately, the desire to read leads to a desire to learn and to write. Managing to attend college in the US, Nahid Rachlin, however, has to experience that in a society were books are freely available and writers are free to exercise their profession, people can yet be bigots, too.
%K United States
%K America
%K history
%K memoir
%K literature
%K women
%K Iran
%U http://www.asjournal.org/archive/55/192.html