The Persians Body Profiling a dozen pioneering 20th-century

Profiling a dozen pioneering 20th-century composers--including American modernist Ruth Crawford Seeger (mother of Pete and Peggy Seeger)

which is to say with an insight as fresh as that of an unusually perceptive child

and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and '90s

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Perhat Tursun's novel is a work of untrammeled literary creativity

The Persians Body Profiling a dozen pioneering 20th-centuryTitle: The Persians Author: Sanam Mahloudji ISBN: 9781668015803 Publisher: Scribner Published: 2026 Binding: Paperback Language: English Number of Pages: 384 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A darkly funny, life affirming "joy of a debut novel" (David Mitchell) that follows five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down. The women of the Valiat family are in