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Book Launch: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers

The Department of Comparative Literature & the Massih Chair Endowment welcome Anita Amirrezvani and Persis Karim to the beautiful campus of UC- Irvine to launch their anthology
Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers

Co-editors in Conversation with Associate Professor of Anthropology Roxanne Varzi

On Wednesday, October 23, 2013
from 12:00 – 2:00 PM
in Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010

Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to Liz Beth Sanchez (lbsanche@uci.edu) by Oct. 18th

The anthology gathers together the work of 27 Iranian American writers and includes stories set in Iran before and after the revolution, as well as stories set in the United States that depict the lives and experiences of Iranian immigrants.

Anita Amirrezvani (left) is the author of the novels The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun. Persis Karim (right) is a poet and editor of Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian.