But when Darznik returned to Princeton, where she was in her first year of a doctoral program in English, she brought the photo with her. As Darznik was organizing some papers, a photograph of her mother dressed as a very young bride, pictured with a man who was not Darznik’s father, fell out from among some old letters.Īt the time she didn’t ask her mother who the man was. The result is an enchanting and unforgettable story of secrets, betrayal, and the unbreakable mother-daughter bond.When Jasmin Darznik *07 went home to California after her father died in November 2000, she made a shocking discovery. In this sweeping, poignant, and beautifully written memoir, Jasmin weaves the stories of three generations of Iranian women into a unique tale of one family's struggle for freedom and understanding. The final tape revealed that Jasmin's sister, Sara - The Good Daughter - was still living in Iran.
But a few months later, she received from her mother the first of ten cassette tapes that would bring to light the wrenching hidden story of her family's true origins in Iran: Lili's marriage at thirteen, her troubled history of abuse and neglect, and a daughter she was forced to abandon in order to escape that life. She was wearing a wedding veil, and at her side stood a man whom Jasmin had never seen before.Īt first, Jasmin's mother, Lili, refused to speak about the photograph, and Jasmin returned to her own home frustrated and confused. When she was in her early twenties, on a day shortly following her father's death, Jasmin was helping her mother move a photograph fell from a stack of old letters. Jasmin Darznik came to America from Iran when she was only three years old, and she grew up knowing very little about her family's history. That's when she began telling me about The Good Daughter. We were a world of two, my mother and I, until I started turning into an American girl.
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