A Way Home - Softcover

Nahid Rachlin's publications include a memoir, Persian Girls (Penguin) and four novels, Jumping Over Fire (City Lights), Foreigner (W.W. Norton-John Murray, London) and Married to a Stranger (E.P.Dutton, hardcover; City Lights, paperback.) She attended the Columbia University Writing Program on a Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship, then went on to Stanford University writing program on a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Her individual short stories have appeared in many magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Redbook and Shenandoah. One of her stories was chosen by Symphony Space, Selected Shorts, and was aired on NPR stations around the country.

I am so impressed with Nahid Rachlin's style its purity and sparseness and immediacy. In remarkably few words, she has managed to bring to life an entire small pocket of existence... a rare intimate look at Iranians who are poorer and less educated. The voice is cool and pure. Bleak is the right word, if you will understand that bleakness can have a startling beauty. --Anne Tyler, NY Times Book Review

(Selected by Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing Program as one of the best four books of the year.) If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had ever known her aunt, as it happens and returned to a family in which the prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the artist in an Islamic country on the verge of dramatic change is filled with light. --NPR, The World