The Good Daughter : A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden LifeBy Jasmin Darznik
Grand Central. 2011.324 pgs. Nonfiction
Jasmin Darznik was an adult before she discovered her mother Lili’s long kept secret: her life as a 13- year- old bride to an abusive husband in Iran and the daughter she gave up when she divorced him. Darznik was raised in California as the daughter of a German father and an Iranian mother and only knew her mother as a hard-working immigrant coping with an alcoholic husband. To tell the story of her mother, Darznik shares the stories of three generations of Iranian women and their extended families.
The Good Daughter is a finely written biography that should appeal to anyone who read and enjoyed Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi), or the fictional, A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khalid Hosseini). SH
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