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Against Gravity.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Against Gravity.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Against Gravity. Farnoosh Moshiri. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.308 pages. $14.00 paper.

Farnoosh Moshiri's most recent novel, Against Gravity, scrutinizes the experience of an Iranian exile living in America in the early 1990s. Against Gravity uses themes that appear in Moshiri's previous works, The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (2004) and The Bathhouse (2001), such as imprisonment, torture, execution, and exile during the time of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Whereas Moshiri's earlier works were set mainly in Iran and all her characters were Iranian, Against Gravity explores the experiences of a female Iranian character within an American context. Roya Saraabi, the main Iranian character, flees Iran after she is tortured in prison, her brother is executed, and her husband is killed in the Iran-Iraq War. The novel is set in Houston in the early 1990s where Roya and her daughter, Tala, have sought asylum after spending a...

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