![]() ![]() ![]() My only good fortune is that I realized early on that I am one of the wretched of this earth. Her death flattened my heart into a sheet of paper. I had not been alive long before my mother, Bibi Khanoum, dropped dead. Aazareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and a National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honoree. When war comes to Iran, she flees with her father years later, and alone, she begins retracing their journey. Before she was Zebra, Bibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini was raised in a library and taught to memorize literary classics. The following is from Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's novel, Call Me Zebra. ![]()
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