She said her hopes of ever returning, even for a visit, are slim. Much of the evening’s conversation centered on Iran, a country Darznik left when she was 5 years old but added: “Iran never left me.”
Her mother divorced that husband, and in doing so, had to leave behind her young daughter, a half-sister Darznik has never met. Her first book, “The Good Daughter,” published in 2010, is the compelling story of her mother whose first marriage took place when she was just 13 years old, a shocking revelation Darznik only discovered as a young adult. Graduating from law school, she went on to pursue a doctorate in English literature, which to her family, she joked to appreciative laughter from the crowd, “was like running away with the Grateful Dead.” They settled in Marin County, where her parents ran a hotel and she described living an immigrant experience that felt on the “edges and margins of American life.”Īlways an avid reader, Darznik did what her family expected of her. The ongoing series, now in its seventh year, aims to bring the broader community together through topics of particular interest to women.ĭarznik’s family fled Iran in 1978 in the tense months before the Iranian Revolution. Bestselling author Jasmin Darznik writes about missing women, but her books aren’t whodunit thrillers or true crime stories.Īs she explained to a rapt audience Wednesday night at the newly renovated Studio Theatre at Santa Rosa Junior College, the missing women in her books are those whom history has a tendency to ignore.ĭarznik, the author of the the New York Times bestseller “The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life,” as well as two other historical fiction novels, “Song of a Captive Bird” and “The Bohemians,” spoke as part of the Women in Conversation series co-sponsored by The Press Democrat.
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