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  • Read an Excerpt from Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri
    Read an Excerpt from Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri
    November 16, 2017

    Read an Excerpt from Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri

    On the same day in 1979 when a new, deeply orthodox government declared the birth of the Islamic Republic in Iran, Sheyda Porrouya, the narrator of Ava Farmehri's Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will ...

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