Before she has time to understand what's happening, passions, politics, and a plague of locusts have whipped up emotions that she never knew she had. The debonair widower, his beguiling tween daughter, and his mother, a domineering aristocrat with an exotic past, steal their way into Clarisse's home. But her tranquillity ends with the arrival of an enigmatic Armenian family across the street. She has all she's ever wanted: a well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighborhood. A model wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life as an Armenian-Iranian woman living in Abadan, Iran, where one of the world's largest oil refineries is situated. Things We Left Unsaid: A Novel by Zoya Pirzad, translated by Franklin Lewis (London: Oneworld, 2012 reprint 2013 Persian original, Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz, 2002).
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