When skateboards will be free a memoir

"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, Saèid Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir. Saèid'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, Saèid 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 Saèid is suddenly forced to confront the combustible stew of his identity."--Publisher description.

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (Auteur) - Verschenen op 01/03/2010 bij Dial Press Trade Paperback