My Bird Brett Gibbons University of Nottingham ""Gillian Rose

University of Nottingham ""Gillian Rose has long been acknowledged as one of post-war Britain's most original thinkers

Marvelous Marvin Hagler

and stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined

he does not toy with the affections of innocents

My Bird Brett Gibbons University of Nottingham ""Gillian RoseIn this powerful story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, Fariba Vafi gives readers a portrait of one woman's struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. The narrator, a housewife and young mother living in a low income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells upon her husband Amir's desire to immigrate to Canada. His peripatetic lifestyle underscores her own sense of inertia. When he finally slips away, the young woman