The Persians: A Novel Jacqueline Davies Joan has spent a lifetime

Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men

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The Persians: A Novel Jacqueline Davies Joan has spent a lifetimeAn irreverent and deeply felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, theyre nobodies. First 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