Aria
About this book
Jasmine Talahi has built a life on her own terms. A respected oncologist in Seattle, the daughter of Iranian immigrants who sacrificed everything for her success, she has long learned to navigate the distance between who her parents needed her to be and who she actually is. Then her five-year-old daughter, Aria, is killed in an accident, and the careful architecture of her life collapses.
Told entirely through letters spanning decades, Aria moves between generations and continents, weaving together the voices of mothers and daughters who love fiercely and wound deeply. It is a novel about grief that will not be performed, about the inheritance of displacement, and about the impossible weight of being someone’s everything.
Aria is Nassim Assefi’s an hommage to the children we lose and the parents we never fully know.
