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Article Excerpt
Sons and Other Flammable Objects. Porochista Khakpour. New York: Grove Press, 2007. 398 pages. $24.00 hardcover.
Sons and Other Flammable Objects, the debut novel of twenty-nine-year-old Porochista Khakpour, is perhaps the first work by an Iranian American to transcend some of the unresolved, persistent themes that have dominated contemporary Iranian literature written in English--namely, post-revolutionary Iranian victim status and the longing for an idealized homeland. However, Sons does not altogether ignore the fragmented Iranian consciousness after the revolution of 1979. Rather, Sons addresses generational conflicts inherent in all immigrant families and offers a poignant examination of the unsolvable "in-betweenness" that makes outsiders of immigrant children. The novel centers on the young protagonist's initial rejection of, and ultimate steps toward reconciliation...
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