"This is a collection of ... short stories about Iranian men, based on in-depth interviews. Beginning with the innocence of childhood to the tumultuous period of adulthood, the stories explore intimate family relationships in a society that itself was going through dramatic revolutionary turmoil. Love is the dominant theme. The men range in age from twenty-nine to seventy-eight. The reader will become familiar with the Iran of the 1970s through '90s when the revolution drastically changed the culture"--Back cover.