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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Thirty Shadow Birds Paperback Fereshteh Molavi 9781771336536 $22.95 FICTION Sep 30, 2019

To pursue her dream of building a life free from violence for her son and herself, Yalda flees from her nightmarish past as well as her troubled homeland, Iran. But in her new haven, she realizes that nightmares haunt not only her past, but also her present and future. She does what she can to survive, but all her plans dissolve like the shadows and ghosts that follow her. Having fled from an authoritarian regime, and now living in a North America panic-stricken by global terrorism, Yalda is obsessed with all the forms and aspects of violence. ... + Read More
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Series: Memoir and Biography Fuse Paperback Hollay Ghadery 9781771835923 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2021

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture. Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores the documented prevalence of mental health issues in bi-racial women.
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Series: Prophetess Paperback Baharan Baniahmadi 9781550655957 $19.95 FICTION May 13, 2022

An unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma, women's rights, and religious tradition.In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and unable to speak. As the neighbourhood frantically searches for the missing girl, Sara is locked inside herself, unable to tell her parents or police all she knows. Over time, the mute Sara develops a strange allergic reaction, in which hair covers her face every time a man approaches her. One day in school, when an imam ge... + Read More
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Series: Pistachios in My Pocket Paperback Sareh Farmand 9781988168692 $24.95 POETRY Oct 25, 2022

Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family's escape from Iran, detailing their time as immigrants in limbo, and finally, as Landed Immigrants in Canada. Using family anecdotes, memory, public documents, and images to outline her family's story, Pistachios in my Pocket moves from the personal to the universal by exploring the influences of migration, political strife, and cultural identity on humanity. Here is a new voice to th... + Read More
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Series: translanguagings Rumi Roaming Paperback Gita Hashemi 9781988254944 $60.00 POETRY Mar 03, 2023

rumi roaming is a volume unfolding in print, virtual and real spaces. It starts from Rumi's poetics to generate new responses to contemporary issues. rumi roaming showcases performance, poetry, scholarly prose, creative writing, fiction, photo-text compositions, and video that are occasioned by the circulation of Rumi's poetry in different contexts and languages as well as by his life and work.rumi roaming is inspired by Rumi's own itinerant life trajectory across Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey and the spiritual exhortations of his ghazals. Inter... + Read More
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Series: Bebakhshid Paperback Nina Mosall 9781927886748 $18.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2023

Bebakhshid revolves around intimate identity intersections of being Iranian, an immigrant, and a woman. Mosall touches everyday banalities as well as challenges, exploring familial relationships, as well as chosen social environments. Her work is social commentary on the treatment and experience of Middle Easterners, as well as a focussed view of realities of its youth?not just challenges, but the romantic and mundane experiences of the everyday. Instead of being separated into parts, Bebakhshid transverses more intimate accounts, storylines, a... + Read More
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Series: Rebellion Box Paperback Hollay Ghadery 9781989274910 $20.00 POETRY Apr 14, 2023

This explosive debut collection pushes against the limitations of gender roles, race, bodies andminds, and explores our insignificance and impotence in the universe. The concept of otherness afforded by a marginalized and neurodivergent perspective is brilliantly represented in this book.
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Series: Inanna Memoir Series Never Without Love Paperback Mehrnaz Massoudi 9781771336376 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 25, 2019

Both charming and powerful, this memoir unfolds the story of a young girl born in Iran who eventually triumphs over sexism and abuse to become a successful woman and mother in Canada. The book opens with a dramatic account of a terrible accident that leaves a young child with burn scars all over her chest. This scarring has a profound effect on the girl's life. Yet, despite this accident, the narrator's childhood is rich and blessed in many ways. The family circle is extensive and the relationships, especially with the wonderful Baba (her fathe... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series A Fall Afternoon in the Park Stories Paperback Mehri Yalfani 9781771339339 $22.95 FICTION Jun 27, 2023

Mehri Yalfani's new collection consists of nineteen short stories, primarily from Iranian women?s perspectives set in Iran and Canada.In the story "Rainy Day," a little girl longs for a doll with golden hair; in ?Adopted Child,? a successful business professional delays having a baby but then discovers a secret; in ?Armchair Émigré,? siblings struggle to settle their parents? estate; an educated woman finds herself cleaning the home of a wealthy, illiterate woman to pay the bills in the story ?Adam,? and, in the title story, a family is divide... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series A Palace in Paradise Paperback Mehri Yalfani 9781771336215 $22.95 FICTION May 24, 2019

A Palace in Paradise is a novel about the complex Iranian refugee and immigrant community in Toronto and the way in which one woman's death changes the lives of many others. The people in this community are connected by family ties, cultural ties, romance, and the fact that, as immigrants, they not only share a culture, but they also share a past of political violence. Several were at one time imprisoned in Evin, a notorious jail in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Some were unable to withstand the daily torture and constant physical pain they wer... + Read More