![]() ![]() Of course, it’s not that the Ebadis don’t have problems they’ve simply reached a bearable peace with their problems by never talking about them. They seem to have it all-wealth, glamour, grandiloquent Nowruz parties, and the latest spring/summer ensembles from Prada. Leila and Hossein Ebadi are a leading family in “Tehrangeles,” a contemporary milieu in Los Angeles inhabited by Iranians who immigrated to America after the shah’s overthrow in 1979. But close enough, we learn, is intolerably far from the real thing. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, still reeling from an old break-up and stuck in a dead-end Hollywood job, Kara is ready to make some compromises if it means she’ll experience something close enough to happiness. Kara Walker-the protagonist of Abdi Nazemian’s first novel The Walk-in Closet-is ready for a new life. ![]()
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