Veils (Short Story Collection)

"... The commonalities of life, wherever it's lived, shine through in these tales of family friendship, love, and war... They are stories of strength and endurance that continually remind us how fragile our outer shells can be, how deeply love can be felt, and how strong the influence of home is, wherever home may be." -- 500 Great Books by Women, A Reader's Guide, Penguin Books

"It is particularly exciting... to encounter Nahid Rachlin's VEILS, a collection of short stories... suggestive in intriguing rather than exasperating ways. Rachlin plumbs the minds of Iranians disaffected in their own country or displaced in the United States, catching the characters on the awkward hop between old and new identities, unable to lead traditional lives but uncomfortable with new ones."
-- LA Reader

SHORT STORY
IN THE COUNTRY
INTERVIEW, PERSIAN GIRLS, JUMPING OVER FIRE, FOREIGNER, MARRIED TO A STRANGER, HEARTS DESIRE
INTERVIEW with me at AWP Writers Chronicle and reviews of my memoir and novels
MEMOIR
PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin) AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
REVIEW: NPR: The World, selected as ONE OF THE BEST FOUR BOOKS OF the year, by Christopher Merrill, Director of Iowa International Writing program: "If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had ever known—her aunt, as it happens—and returned to a family in which the prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the artist in an Islamic country on the verge of dramatic change is filled with light."
NOVELS
JUMPING OVER FIRE (available in paperback)
"If, as Aristotle reminds us, we are our desire, then who are we if the object of our desire is forbidden? What becomes of us if we are born in one world yet long for another? These are just two of the complex and difficult questions Nahid Rachlin explores and ultimately illuminates in this brave, engrossing, and timely novel. I recommend it highly!"--Andre (Dubus III),author of House of Sand and Fog, and In the Bedroom
FOREIGNER (Available in paperback)
"... a rare intimate look at Iranians who are poorer and less educated... I have read (this book) four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it. The voice is cool and pure. Bleak is the right word, if you will understand that bleakness can have a startling beauty."
--Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review
MARRIED TO A STRANGER (available in paperback)
THE HEART'S DESIRE (Available in paperback)
SHORT STORIES
VEILS (Short Story Collection)Available in paperback

Interviewed by Jessica Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties

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