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A Different Side of the Self: On Finding Freedom By Telling My Story in English
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A Different Side of the Self: On Finding Freedom By Telling My Story in English
When it came time to write my memoir, My Name Means Fire, I chose to write it in English. There’s irony in that, of course. I wrote in English, but my name, “Atash”—which means “fire” in Persian—is where my struggles started. After my father left my mother, shortly after my birth, my mother saw my name as a curse that “burned” her marriage. I became, in her eyes, a destructive flame. My earliest memories were forged in Persian: the smell of jasm…
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