Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, East versus West, but a lingering question that applies to all modern souls: Do we decide how to live, or is our life decided for us?/5(39). A Good Country is expertly shaped, and persuasively investigates an important phenomenon of our times.” ―Guardian “Brilliant a tragic and affecting portrait of how radicalization can happen to an ordinary American, profoundly altering him A Good Country is a courageous and important conclusion to a magnificent trilogy. It suggests that what's saddest and most chilling about /5(39). In this powerful coming of age novel, Laleh Khadivi presents a tragic and dark side of the American Dream, as the US born son of Iranian immigrants considers abandoning his privileged life in California and moving to Syria. A Good Country is a book for our times. It tells the story of Rez Courdee, a successful high school student with a bright academic future ahead of him.
The following is from Laleh Khadivi's novel, A Good Country.A Good Country meditates on modern life, religious radicalization, a boy caught among vastly different worlds. Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. ― Laleh Khadivi, A Good Country. tags: immigrants, old-world, parents. 6 likes. Like "They flew through the night, two or three hundred people in rows, each a universe of histories and desires and fears and futures." ― Laleh Khadivi, A Good Country. 4 likes. Like "Events. A Good Country. by. Laleh Khadivi. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. An achingly timely novel about the radicalization of a Muslim teen in California--about where identity truly lies, and how we find it. Laguna Beach, California, Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his.
Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all modern souls: Do we decide how to live, or is our life decided for us?. Khadivi places a series of clues in the narrative to indicate the struggle of migrant families to. Third in a trilogy of novels about successive generations of Kurdish men, Laleh Khadivi’s “A Good Country” is brilliant. Like her earlier books, it’s lyrical, and it works through many of.
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