Children of the Jacaranda Tree: A Novel

This poignant and spellbinding “literary triumph” (Bustle) centers on Iran’s violent summer of 1988 and the fear, anger, and hope felt by the generation after.

Neda is born in Iran’s Evin Prison, where her mother is allowed to nurse her for a few months before an anonymous guard appears at the cell door one day and simply takes her away. In another part of the city, three-year-old Omid witnesses the arrests of his political activist parents from his perch at their kitchen table, yogurt dripp...