Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith – Gina B Nahai

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith – Gina B NahaiThe first voice we hear in Gina B. Nahais second novel is that of Lili, the grown daughter of a miraculous mother. When Lili was 5 and living in the Jewish ghetto of Tehran, her mother, Roxanna, had grown wings, one night when the darkness was the color of her dreams, and flown into the star studded night of Iran that claimed her. Thirteen years would pass, Lili informs us, before she would find her mother again. This short introduction serves as a

The first voice we hear in Gina B. Nahai’s second novel is that of Lili, the grown daughter of a miraculous mother. When Lili was 5 and living in the Jewish ghetto of Tehran, her mother, Roxanna, “had grown wings, one night when the darkness was the color of her dreams, and flown into the star-studded night of Iran that claimed her.”

Thirteen years would pass, Lili informs us, before she would find her mother again.

This short introduction serves as a framing device for the story of Roxanna’s life, a life begun as a “bad-luck” child. According to her sister, Miriam the Moon, she “had been a runaway before she ever became a wife or a mother, before she came into existence or was even conceived.”

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