* An original original *

From the acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully reproduced, striking collection of personal essays, chronic immigrants, and Iranian-American lives in our time.

The novelist Porochista Khakpour’s family moves to Los Angeles after leaving the Iranian Revolution and relinquishing their successes before being greeted by a thriving culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means experiencing a confusing scent of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is drawn between the glittering culture of Tehrangeles, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA, her humble life and culture of her own family, and becoming an assimilated American. Porochista rebel – she bleached her hair and fled to the east coast, where she found her community: other people wrote and thought about the suburbs.
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But 9/11 happens and Porochista looks horribly out the window of her apartment as the towers fall. Extremism and fear of the Middle East rise in the aftermath and then again with the election of Donald Trump. The Porochista is eventually forced to fight what it means to be the Middle East and Iranians, immigrants and refugees in our country.

The Brown Album is a moving collection of essays, sometimes humorous and sometimes profound, from over a decade of Porochista’s work and added with new material. All in all, it reveals the toll immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joy life can bring…