Turn Left: Spinning an Intercultural Identity

For readers of Martyr! and The World I See, Turn Left is a groundbreaking memoir that maps author Illah Nourbakhsh's journey from the Iranian Revolution to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, revealing how true belonging is found not in a single culture but in the spaces between them.

For fifty years, Illah Nourbakhsh has wrestled with one relentless question: "Where do I belong?" As an Iranian-born immigrant who rejected the neat labels of "bicultural" or "Iranian-American," he discov...