Saffron Sky

This lyrical memoir evinces the author''s passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic and tells of her frustration during later trips to post-Shah Iran with the sisters the Ayatollah''s ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty.