The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen by Azar, Shokoofeh

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades. ★ “A wildly ambitious novel about Iran's past, present, and future filled with longing and fury.”— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Spanning fifty years in the history of modern Iran, this lush, layered story embraces politics and family, revolution and reconstruction, loss and love as