When Skateboards Will Be Free

"The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite...
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Author: Sa?d Sayrafiezadeh
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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When Skateboards Will Be Free by Sayrafiezadeh, Sa?d

When Skateboards Will Be Free

Dhs. 115.81

When Skateboards Will Be Free

Dhs. 115.81
Author: Sa?d Sayrafiezadeh
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it."

With a profound gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Sa d Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir.

Sa d's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother had one thing in common: their unshakable conviction that the workers' revolution was coming. Separated since their son was nine months old, they each pursued a dream of the perfect socialist society. Pinballing with his mother between makeshift Pittsburgh apartments, falling asleep at party meetings, longing for the luxuries he's taught to despise, Said waits for the revolution that never, ever arrives. "Soon," his mother assures him, while his long-absent father quixotically runs as a socialist candidate for president in an Iran about to fall under the ayatollahs. Then comes the hostage crisis. The uproar that follows is the first time Sa d hears the word "Iran" in school. There he is suddenly forced to confront the combustible stew of his identity: as an American, an Iranian, a Jew, a socialist... and a middle-school kid who loves football and video games.

Poised perfectly between tragedy and farce, here is a story by a brilliant young writer struggling to break away from the powerful mythologies of his upbringing and create a life--and a voice--of his own. Sa d Sayrafiezadeh's memoir is unforgettable.

Author: Sa?d Sayrafiezadeh
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 03/30/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.22w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780385340694


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/25/2010 pg. 24

About the Author
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's writing has appeared in Granta, the Paris Review, and Open City. He lives in New York.

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