When: May 17–May 23
Where: multiple listings

Join author Nahid Rachlin for two readings and booksignings of her latest novel, Persian Girls.

When: Saturday, May 17
Where: Borders Bookstore: 10 Columbus Circle, NYC
What time: 2 p.m.

When: Friday, May 23
Where: Women & Children First: 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago
What time: 7:30 p.m.

"In a story of ambition, oppression, hope, heartache, and sisterhood, Persian Girls traces Rachlin's coming of age in Iran and her domineering father-her tangled family life, and her relationship with her older sister, and unexpected soul mate, Pari. "
—NPR: The World

Selected by Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing Program as one of the best four books of 2006. "If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had ever known—her  aunt, as it happens—and returned to a family in which the prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the artist in an Islamic country on the verge of dramatic change is filled with light."

Visit Nahid Rachlin's website for more.