Farangi Girl
Farangi Girl by Ashley Dartnell is a reprint edition published by Hodder on March 27, 2012. This biography recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Tehran during the 1960s, where her American mother and English father sought a more glamorous life amidst the complexities of their surroundings. The narrative unfolds through the lens of Ashley’s childhood, revealing a world filled with privilege yet shadowed by challenges such as bankruptcies, betrayals, and the realities of life under the Shah’s regime.
Readers will find a deeply personal account that explores the intricate relationship between mothers and daughters, framed by the author’s strong-willed mother, Genie. The memoir captures the essence of Ashley’s journey into adulthood against a backdrop of cultural and familial upheaval. Through her storytelling, Dartnell presents an honest portrayal of love, complexity, and the pursuit of identity, making Farangi Girl a significant addition to the genre of biography and autobiography. This edition spans 432 pages and is written in English.
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Ashley Dartnell’s mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners was rich and privileged. But somehow it didn’t all add up to a fairytale. There were bankruptcies and prisons, betrayals and lovers, lies and evasions. And throughout it all, Ashley’s passionate and strong-willed mother, Genie.
Stories of mothers and daughters are some of the most compelling in contemporary memoir, from The Liar’s Club and The Glass Castle to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and Bad Blood. Farangi Girl deserves to be in their company. It’s an honest and endlessly recognisable portrait of a mother by a daughter who loved her (and was loved in return).
Against this extraordinary background, Ashley’s journey into adulthood was more helter-skelter than most and this portrait of a bewitching and endlessly inventive mother is surprising and deeply moving.
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