A Nearby Country Called Love : A Novel Asian American & Pacific Islander Asha’s optimism is shadowed by

Asha’s optimism is shadowed by strange and disturbing occurrences within the old house’s walls: footsteps stalking the halls

and then a woman in search of her lost son

In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life

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A Nearby Country Called Love : A Novel Asian American & Pacific Islander Asha’s optimism is shadowed byBy Salar Abdoh A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the womans death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions of