Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Cyrus Shams
Chapter One
Monday
Chapter Two
[From: Rear Admiral…]
[That evening, Cyrus…]
Chapter Three
[For as long…]
Chapter Four
Bandar Abbas, Iran
Chapter Five
[WASHINGTON, July 3…]
Cyrus and Ali Shams
Lisa Simpson and Roya Shams
Chapter Six
Roya and Arash Shirazi
Chapter Seven
Tuesday
Chapter Eight
Zee Novak
Chapter Nine: Bobby Sands
Friday
Chapter Ten
[I am setting…]
Ali Shams
Chapter Eleven
Arash Shirazi
Chapter Twelve
[Gilles Deleuze called…]
Chapter Thirteen
[The iron law…]
Roya Shams
Chapter Fourteen: Qu Yuan
Saturday
Chapter Fifteen
[It feels so…]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Beethoven Shams
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen: Bhagat Singh
Sunday
Interlude
Chapter Eighteen: Roya Shams/Mom
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one: Ali Shams
Chapter Twenty-two
Orkideh and President Invective
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four: Orkideh
Chapter Twenty-five
[If the mortal…]
Ali Shams and Rumi
Chapter Twenty-six
[In the balancing…]
Chapter Twenty-seven
[When asked about…]
[Sitting on a…]
Chapter Twenty-eight
[I believe that…]
Orkideh
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
[There are no…]
Chapter Thirty-two
[I feel dangerous…]
Coda
Sang Linh
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author
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