In order to honor her ancestors, Zebra decides to make a "Grand Tour of Exile" through the Old World. The Zebra, she muses, is "an animal striped black-and-white like a prisoner of war an animal that rejects all binaries, that represents ink on paper" it's a name fit for an outsider, and she takes it on. Now, more than a decade after fleeing Iran, with her parents both dead, Bibi seeks a new mentor, vocation, and identity. Raised in Iran during the height of the Iraq War, Bibi fled with her parents, the last survivors of a proud tribe of “Autodidacts, Anarchists, Atheists.” Their journey was filled with horrors-death, fatigue, and hunger-and it haunts her into a fractured adulthood in New York City. A young woman struggles to make sense of the tragedy of exile, embarking on a series of pilgrimages that may destroy her chance for happiness.īibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini, the thorny, tragicomic heroine of Van der Vliet Oloomi’s ( Fra Keeler, 2012, etc.) darkly funny novel, is a narrator who deliberately resists categorization.
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