about what it means when u leave an ancient culture like the hills of kurdish dance and move to israel and into the united states. this is in the way, i think it s highest aspiration is this is an americ story about immigration and identity and what it means to leave the past behind, what you can take with you, what do you he to leave behind. the book is my ther s paradise. the author is ariel sabar. thank you very much. now my move back coincide with the change in my own life. d as you might suspect given the title of my book, i met someone who would later become my husband. and when i move back so that we could start our life together and go forward, i began to experience and sort of firsthand witness all of the things that iranian young people were dealing with when it came to marriage. and moving on in life eon simply being single and young. this a started for me in the course of planning our wedding and there s a chapter in my book devoted to this and it is cal