False Prophet by Farhadi, Afsheen
False Prophet by Farhadi, Afsheen

False Prophet

The cult drama of The Girls meets Yellowface's searing exploration of lies, immigration, and identity in this...
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Author: Afsheen Farhadi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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False Prophet by Farhadi, Afsheen

False Prophet

$23.98
False Prophet by Farhadi, Afsheen

False Prophet

$23.98
Author: Afsheen Farhadi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The cult drama of The Girls meets Yellowface's searing exploration of lies, immigration, and identity in this propulsive literary thriller debut.

A grieving actor-turned-memoirist reimagines his mother's encounter with Jim Jones, the deadliest cult leader of all time--the only problem is, it's mostly all lies . . .

Actor Jal Persad is enjoying moderate success when the death of his mother, Rita, sends him into a tailspin--after all, how could he grieve a woman he barely knew? Rita had grown up in Guyana during the rise and fall of the Jonestown cult, but never spoke of her home to Jal, always keeping him at a distance.

After months of avoiding work, a misunderstanding at lunch with his manager leads Jal into a web of lies. He soon finds himself writing a memoir of his mother's adolescence, one that places her in direct contact with Jim Jones himself. There's just one issue-Rita never met the man. Suddenly, the book goes viral, and Jal must face the looming threat of exposure, and his own guilt.

Alternating between Jal's rapid rise and Rita's distorted story, False Prophet confronts the intergenerational legacy of colonialism, the allure of power, and the age-old question-how much of yourself are you willing to lose in order to succeed?

Author: Afsheen Farhadi
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.51w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9781685892418


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2026
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2026
Foreword 06/27/2026
Booklist 07/01/2026

About the Author
Afsheen Farhadi was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and his short fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, Catapult, Bright Lights Film Journal, and elsewhere. He served as the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, Prose at Southern Methodist University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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