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Journal Article
Dreaming in Persian: An Interview with Novelist Gina Barkhordar Nahai
2008
Overview
Peacock tells the story of seven generations of an Iranian Jewish family by wedding imagined stories to historical events in a style that frequently has been dubbed \"magical realism.\" In Nahai's books the female protagonists are frequently mothers who seek out self-imposed exiles from Iran-traversing vast physical and cultural distances as they do so-and the daughters who are left to make sense of their mothers' absences, their own connections to Iran, and, indeed, their fidelity to the very notions of home and belonging. In Tehran's Jewish ghetto, Alexandra the Cat surrounds herself with a shabby, glorious Russian-inspired gentility; on the Avenue of Faith, Fraulein Claude hoards European antiques and trinkets; in America, Mercedez the Movie Star buys herself a mansion fit for a Hollywood movie set. To teach writing, you have to learn to recognize areas of strength and weakness, to pinpoint the source of the weakness-both structurally and emotionally-and to offer advice as to how it might be remedied.
