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A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's objectives to find her tone and her future "Remember the flight, for the parrot is mortal." During her years as a child in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is advised that Persian daughters should be peaceful and modest. She actually is taught and then obey, but she always discovers ways to rebel - gossiping with her sister one of the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her stringent, disapproving dad, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer months of 1950, Forugh's passion for poetry needs flight - and custom looks for to clip her wings. Obligated into a suffocating relationship, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to create and also to achieve flexibility and independence. Forugh's poems are considered both scandalous and fantastic; she is heralded by some as a countrywide treasure, vilified by others as a demon inspired by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own guidelines - at substantial cost. But the power of her writing only develops more powerful amid the upheaval of the Iranian trend. Motivated by Forugh Farrokhzad's verse, words, movies, and interviews - and including original translations of her poems - this haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting wants of a daring woman who symbolizes the delivery of feminism in Iran - and who is constantly on the inspire years of women surrounding the world.
