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The rose hotel : a memoir of secrets, loss, and love from Iran to America / Rahimeh Andalibian.

by Andalibian, Rahimeh.

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National Geographic, [2015]

305.4889155 A543r

Andalibian, Rahimeh.

Political refugees -- Iran -- Biography.

Political refugees -- United States -- Biography.

Iranian American women -- Biography.

Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Personal narratives.

335 p. ; 24 cm.

Including reading guide, pages 333-334.

"In this searing memoir, Iran-born author Rahimeh Andalibian tells the story of her family: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move to California, and their attempts to acculturate in the face of teenage rebellion, murder, addiction, and new traditions. Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes: a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused. She takes us first into her family's tranquil, jasmine-scented days of prosperity in their luxury hotel in Mashhad, Iran. Their life is ruptured by the 1979 revolution as they flee: first to the safety of a mansion in Tehran, next to a squalid one-room flat in London, and finally to California, where they suffer a different kind of revolution. Struggling to adjust to a new host culture, they soon discover that although they escaped Iran, they are not free from their own lies and hidden truths. As the family comes to grips with their new home, the strength of their bonds are tested by love, loyalty, compassion, hate, pain, loss--and the will to survive. Heartbreaking and intimately told, this is a universal story of healing, rebirth after tragedy, and hard-won redemption"--From publisher.

Autobiographies.

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