![]() ![]() The personal, decisive moments of the Sadr family’s story play out against the Iranian Revolution of 1979. And there are grandmothers, uncles, sisters, cousins, and neighborhood friends, all essential to the tale and to Kimiâ learning to understand herself. ![]() We meet her parents Darius and Sara, a pair whose love was rivaled only by devotion to revolution. There’s the great-grandfather who collected 52 wives at his estate in Mazandaran, a province in the north of Iran with green hills and cooling mist. ![]() Her family is almost the stuff of folklore. She bides her time by telling us her family’s life story and slowly revealing what brought her to this chair in this room. When we meet Kimiâ, she’s alone in the waiting room of a Paris clinic. She’s an exile from Iran, the daughter of a dissident journalist, and the granddaughter of a woman born into a 19th-century harem. Our heroine Kimiâ Sadr is a storyteller - sardonic and breathtakingly vulnerable, a modern Scheherazade with a predilection for punk rock. ![]()
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