A Nearby Country Called Love -- Salar Abdoh, Hardcover Curt May Bedford in the British Midlands

Bedford in the British Midlands

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Julien Baker

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A Nearby Country Called Love -- Salar Abdoh, Hardcover Curt May Bedford in the British MidlandsA sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions of his own family