Farangi girl : a memoir of my mother, parties with princes and growing up in Iran / Ashley Dartnell.
Material type:
TextPublication details: London : Two Roads, 2011.Description: 414 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781444714692 (cased) :
- 1444714694 (cased) :
- 9781444714708 (pbk.)
- 955 DAR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 955 DAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100668186 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ashley Dartnell's mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the Sixties: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners was rich and privileged. But somehow it didn't all add up to a fairytale. There were bankruptcies and prisons, betrayals and lovers, lies and evasions. And throughout it all, Ashley's passionate and strong-willed mother, Genie.
Stories of mothers and daughters are some of the most compelling in contemporary memoir, from The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Bad Blood . Farangi Girl deserves to be in their company. It's an honest and endlessly recognisable portrait of a mother by a daughter who loved her (and was loved in return).
Against this extraordinary background, Ashley's journey into adulthood was more helter-skelter than most and this portrait of a bewitching and endlessly inventive mother is surprising and deeply moving.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Ashley Dartnell was born in 1960s Tehran to an American mother and an English father. Educated in Tehran, she later graduated from Bryn Mawr and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. This is her first book.
Ashley lives in London with her husband and three children.