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Spellbinding in its narration, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is the storyline of the Iranian gal who, segregated from her mom and twin sister through the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a abundant, imaginative world where they live. Growing up in a little fishing community in 1980s Iran, 11-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are fascinated by America. They keep lists of English vocabulary words and accumulate contraband copies of Life magazine and Beatles cassettes. So when Saba suddenly finds herself forgotten, exclusively with her father in Iran, she actually is certain that her mom and sister have moved to America without her. Bereft, she pains for their company, and for the Western life she thinks she actually is being rejected. All her life she had been trained that "fate is in the blood", which must imply that twins will live the same life, even if segregated by land and sea. Thus, over another several years, as Saba falls in and out of love and challenges with the limited opportunities available to her as a woman in Iran, she imagines a simultaneous, parallel life, a Western version, on her behalf sister. But where Saba's report has all the grit and brutality of real life in postrevolutionary Iran, her sister's life - as Saba envisions it - provides her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colorful solid of heroes, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is informed in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with simple Western prose and explains to a tale about the importance of controlling your own fate.
