Sons and other flammable objects

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.