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"With a gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir. Saïd's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother had one thing in common: their unshakable conviction that the workers' revolution was coming. Separated since their son was nine months old, they each pursued a dream of the perfect socialist society. Pinballing with his mother between makeshift Pittsburgh apartments, falling asleep at party meetings, longing for the luxuries he's taught to despise, Saïd waits for the revolution that never arrives, while his long-absent father quixotically runs as a socialist candidate for president in an Iran about to fall under the ayatollahs. Then comes the hostage crisis, and Saïd is suddenly forced to confront the combustible stew of his identity."--Publisher description

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Light/Shadow -- The Summer I Disappeared -- Sacrifices -- Shadow Nation -- Two Minutes to Midnight -- When We Were Lions -- Fortune-Tellers -- Silkscreen -- Hookah, Once upon a Time -- Think of the Trees -- Pushing the Boundaries -- Uninvited Guest -- Coding/Decoding -- The Name on My Coffee Cup -- Negotiating Memories -- In Praise of Big Noses -- Transmutations of/by Language -- Gilad, My Enemy -- Two Countries, One Divided Self -- Mothering across the Cultural Divide -- My Mom Killed Michael Jackson -- Am I an Immigrant? -- 1,916 Days -- Culture beyond Language -- Memory/Longing -- Forget Me Not -- Errand -- The Color of the Bricks -- Renounce and Abjure All Allegiance -- Learning Farsi -- Delam Tang Shodeh -- Walking with Zahra -- Halva -- Her Orange-Blossom Tea -- The Iranians of Mercer Island -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors