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When I started this book,I immediately wanted to bail.Nahid,the narrator has just been diagnosed with cancer.She came across to me as a despicable person-angry,nasty, to her daughter & those around her.But something pulled me back into her story & I am so thankful I responded to that pull.As her life story slowly emerged,as she struggled to understand her journey herself & cope with her diagnosis,I began to feel empathy.A refugee of the Iranian🔽

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Love combing the shelves…some new to me authors; some known to me authors. Happy day! #lovelibraries

Completely (!) not what I expected!
Toughgt I was picking up some easy breazy entertaining read with a soft spin of love story and youth in revolt in Iran, but was I wrong! It's tide, it's dark, it's sad and it's hopefull.
Beautiful.

Reading for the flight! #flight #Toronto

Nahid, was once a #flowerinthedesert but now 50 and living in Sweden, has been given 6 months to live. Told from her point of view we see her anger, resistance and denial. Her reaction to her daughters pregnancy. We flash back to her difficult childhood in Iran and her naivete as a college age revolutionary that leads to tragedy, betrayal, and eventual flight to Sweden. 5⭐
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Just starting this one...looks short but heavy...

I couldn‘t put this slim novel down. Nahid is a woman in her 50‘s, living in Sweden after immigrating from Iran in the 1980‘s. Now facing death, she reflects on her life, relationships, and motherhood without sentimentality. What do we owe those who come before us, and those we leave behind?

It packs a punch, but it‘s not without hope.

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When Nahid receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer, she has to confront the most difficult elements of her past -- her time as a revolutionary in her home country of her Iran and the loss of many she loved, her experience and identity as as refugee, and her role as both a daughter and a mother. Short but powerful read.

“Is it possible you use up life faster if you live intensely? People have always told me I laugh too loud. Imagine if every laugh, every laugh that was too loud, took days off my life. What if you‘re only given a limited number of breaths, and they run out more quickly when you laugh too loud, talk too loud, dance yourself breathless.”

Nahid, 50 and living in Sweden, has been given 6 months to live. Told from her pov we see her anger, resistance and denial. Her reaction to her daughters pregnancy. We flash back to her difficult childhood in Iran and her naivete as a college age revolutionary that leads to tragedy, betrayal, and eventual flight to Sweden. The first person perspective gives you no distance from this unsympathetic but very real character. 5⭐

As she is dying of cancer,50 year old Nahid recalls her past, and a major turning point during the Iranian Revolution, when her 14 yr old sister joined her at a protest and was killed.This book is beautifully written,spare and harsh and alive and painful.It is about mother‘s and daughters and what binds us, what we give and what we leave behind.It is about being a refugee in a land of snow, not sand.It is about life, death, dying, and new birth.

#carknitting #carreading #BFClydesCiderMill #MysticCT

Traveling to BF Clyde‘s Cider Mill for cider, apple cider donuts, hard cider tasting, Apple wine tasting. When cleaning out a storage room, I found this old knitting- with my knitting journal from 2015! Picking it up again to finish- car blanket. Have not knit in many years since I took a class on making a sweater using circular needles& utterly failed- sweater became a lopsided bucket.

#FallintoReading #November #favoritefallreadingspot
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Now that Fall has turned cold, I have abandoned my front porch and moved into my bed, piled high with toasty quits. Emily always & sometimes, Poe favor this warm spot.

#WhenaSorrowStandsforAllSorrows #immigration #Iran
Started this library book today. It caught my eye; I had never heard of this book. Only a few pages in; writing spare, but beautiful. Already I am hooked.

“Don‘t they realise I‘m here because I‘m strong?” Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde isn‘t pulling any punches here and I love it.