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This is the true story of Shaghayegh “Poppy” Farsijani, an American-Iranian rebellious teenager living a care-free life in Brooklyn, on track to go to college and become a journalist, just as she’d always dreamed of. Poppy is wrenched from her life in a liberal American environment and faced with a new and unknown life in a rigid Islamic country. Fear is a mild word to describe what she was feeling. Her new life in Iran strips her of the Western freedoms she had grown up with and sends her down a rabbit hole.

This diary-like account tells the frustrating, eye-opening, and often hilarious true story of how a young woman, during the most formative years of her life, desperately fought to maintain not only her freedom, but her identity. It’s a story of change, fear, hope, and ultimately, triumph. This is the story of how Shaghayegh remained true to herself when the world around her was trying to make her forget who she was.

The book is a stretched and deep dive into a starry, earthy, and surrealist world of joy. Always existing but never used and somehow decaying. These streams of poems will generously open the gateway of sensuous tropical lines of the soul. Now, it's time to put on spectacles of intense passion to discover provocative and emotional states described through images and poignant associations.