Tue, Mar 12
|Staunton Public Library
2024 Virginia Festival of the Book Preview Event
Author Mojgan Ghazirad presents her newest book "The House on Sun Street". A story depicting a young girl who grows up in a family uprooted by the terror of an Islamic Revolution, where her culture, her gender, and her education are in peril.
Time & Location
Mar 12, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Staunton Public Library, 1 Churchville Ave, Staunton, VA 24401, USA
About the Event
From Moji’s house on Sun Street in Tehran, readers experience the 1979 Iranian revolution through the eyes of a young girl and her family members during a time of concussive political and social change.
The days of listening to her grandfather recount enchanting stories of One Thousand and One Nights seem far gone as Moji endures the harrowing first days of the violent revolution, a fraught passage to the US where there is only hostility from her classmates during the Iranian hostage crisis, her father’s detainment by the Islamic Revolutionary Army, and finally, the massive change in the status of women in post-revolution Iran.
Author Mojgan Ghazirad will be in conversation with poet Rosa Castellano, Cave Canem’s Starshine and Clay Fellow.
Festival of the Book Preview Events bring authors across the state before the main Festival in Charlottesville on March 20-24. Preview events are sponsored by Michelle and David Baldacci. This event…