NASSIM ASSEFI
Monday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with HEDGEBROOK. Nassim Assefi is a (sometimes) Seattle-based physician specializing in global medicine and women's health whose work and interests have taken her in recent years to Kabul and Havana. For her wonderful debut novel, Aria (Harcourt), she draws on her family's ancestral homeland of Iran. Tonight we help welcome into the world—with one of the very first readings—this luminous story of a woman who finds and comes to terms with a life she doesn't feel adequately equipped to fully live—at a time of great loss in that life. "How long does grief last? How far away can we run to try to get away from it? What happens if it stays with us forever? In this wise and compassionate debut novel, Nassim Assefi looks at questions of memory, love, and grief as she takes us to Tibet, China, Guatemala, her homeland Iran, and, most importantly, the human heart." - Rebecca Brown. "A haunting book...enacting in lyrical prose, an Iranian-American's loss, atonement and reconciliation with Iran and powerfully revealing of the discordancies and echoes that define the interaction between American and Persian culture." - Rory Stewart. For more information on Hedgebrook, please see www.hedgebrook.org.

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