![]() Her mother and brothers remained in Iran for an additional six years until 1986, when they left Iran for Paris. She describes her early separation from her mother at the age of 11, when she and her sister were sent off to Sacré Coeur boarding school in Austria before escaping to America (under the guise of a vacation) to live with their maternal uncle in Virginia Beach, Va. Born in Tehran the second of four children (she has an older sister, Afsaneh, and two younger brothers, Ali and Amir), Latifi, 35, narrates the tale with a mixture of distance and honesty. It tells the story of the family’s struggles to survive as they lived in fundamentalist Islamic Iran after the death of the father, later moving to Europe and eventually America. The book was written as a tribute to her mother, Fatemeh, who just turned 60. All time does is occupy your mind with other stuff, so maybe you don’t sit there and think about the loss every second of the day.” It’s you that has to start the healing process. “You know how people always tell you, ‘Time heals everything,’” she says. Afschineh Latifi’s book, “Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution and Leaving Iran,” opens with the 1979 assassination of her father, a highly ranked military officer, at the hands of Ayatollah Khomeini’s soldiers-an event that understandably haunts the author to this day. But real life doesn’t always work out so neatly. ![]() NEW YORK - Classic storytelling often begins on a placid note, and builds up to a pivotal moment. ![]()
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