Persian Moon - Layla's Story
Moon Trilogy, Book 1
#Women
PERSIAN MOON tells the story of Layla Saleh, an Iranian girl who travels from Tehran, Iran to California in 1961 to attend UCLA. Her stay in Los Angeles opens her eyes to the Western way of life, a sharp contrast to her life in Iran, and she begins to change her life view. As she questions her past beliefs, her life takes a sharp turn from which she can never turn back.
Layla represents the woman who feels repressed by her narcissistic mother, her culture, her religion, her time, and the myths she has been indoctrinated with. She feels she must adhere to these expectations at the expense of her own fulfillment. Her journey is one of struggle against constraints forced by old beliefs.
PERSIAN MOON is an ambitious debut novel, exquisitely researched, offering a strong narrative with well-crafted characters, crammed with rich, unexpected twists and turns and highlighting universal themes of human behavior.
PERSIAN MOON is the first novel in the exciting Moon Trilogy, joined with MOON CHILD and MOONLIGHT.
What Readers Are Saying:
"I'm an American-Iranian and have never been to Iran. In addition to being a fabulous story, the Tehran scenes in PERSIAN MOON gave me a sense of the city and the history of modern Tehran. Amazing plot, passionate, very real characters. Couldn't put the book down and can't wait to read more about these characters
I've fallen so in love with."
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"A stunning fictionalized account of a young Persian woman coming of age during the Shah's Westernization of Iran. PERSIAN MOON, the first of three books I found to be excellent in every way, is a suspenseful page turner about a woman victimized by her decision not to conform to the religious, cultural and family expectations that cloak female sexuality."
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“In PERSIAN MOON, you have created a story with a strong narrative, rich, well-defined characters and have brought to life a culture that many American readers know little about. Your prose is natural and smooth, and the reader is enchanted with Layla. I enjoyed this story enormously.”​