Zebra loses her mother along the way, and her father dies when she is just 22 and a student at New York University. Finally without options in its native land, her family uproots and begins a treacherous refugee journey through Turkey to Spain and ultimately to the "new world" of the United States. Her father reads her bedtime stories from Nietzsche, Dante and Kafka. Born in an erudite Iranian family under constant threat, she is smothered in learning-memorizing passages from influential world literature and assimilating a dozen languages before her teens. The eponymous Zebra (née Bibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini) of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's second novel is a young raconteur in search of the sources of her intellectual family's wandering past and cultural legacy.
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