Half a Life: A Memoir and surprising allusions

and surprising allusions

but the sisters' unshakeable devotion to one another

or co-workers

Nasr brings to light facts and events in Iran's political history that have been overlooked until now

and New York Times bestseller

Half a Life: A Memoir and surprising allusionsUnflinchingly honest, moving, and funny, "Half a Life" shows how a girl without means or promise and with only a loving mother, chutzpah, a bit of fraud, and a lot of luck turned into somebody. In 1964 the Ciment family left middle class Montreal for the fringe desert communities of Los Angeles, where their always unstable father lost the last vestiges of his sanity. Terrified and broke, in a world he could neither understand nor control, he came