Sons and other flammable objects
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
While growing up, Xerxes Adams's major life goal is to completely separate himself from his Iranian parents, neither of whom can offer their son anything he can actually use to make sense of his immigrant identity or help him define himself.
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This is a smart, funny book with unique and memorable characters. Khakpour writes from the points of view of several different family members and friends of an Iranian-American family in the months just prior to and after 9-11. I five-stars-worth loved it until the last few chapters, where I started to find the P.O.V. character too self-absorbed to see sympathetically, so by the time the emotional pay-off came at the end, it didn't work for me as much. But it is still a three-stars lovely book.
