We are so often dependent on the mainstream news for information about life in other countries. But there is always more. Kian Beyzavi, born and raised in Iran, sheds a bright light on what it was like to grow up there. The details of growing up as a very smart young girl in Tehran may surprise you as it did me. Her recollections of having been raised in a sophisticated bustling metropolis are, in many ways, no different from childhood anywhere that loving family and beautiful surroundings exist. See which academic luminaries welcomed Kian and her sister into the United States when they arrived as college students.
The love letter to her father written by hand in beautiful Farsi script will be not only a family gift forever as it was the day he recently received it but an important historical document for generations to come.
