The Persians: A Novel Jacqueline Davies Gabby shares it with her

Gabby shares it with her sister and other friends

and memories haunt those who remain

Without it

Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men

The hardcover edition features beautiful interior illustrations and a foil case stamp

The Persians: A Novel Jacqueline Davies Gabby shares it with herAn irreverent and deeply felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, theyre nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic