A Girl Called Rumi by Ari Honarvar [in Shelf Awareness]
04 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Iranian, Iranian American, Persian, Persian American, Repost
Journalist/artist/activist Ari Honarvar's promising debut, A Girl Called Rumi, memorializes the lifesaving power of storytelling through the darkest terrors. In 1981, the Iran-Iraq War was still new and a semblance of normalcy seemed possible for 9-year-old Kimia, who claims "Rumi" as part-time moniker. She's missing...