Rosewater and Soda Bread (39 page)

Born in Tehran, Iran, Marsha Mehran escaped the Revolution with her family. She has since lived in places as diverse as Buenos Aires, the United States, Australia, and Ireland. Her first novel,
Pomegranate Soup
, was an international bestseller. She lives in New York, where she is busy spinning more tales.

Rosewater and Soda Bread
is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are
used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Marsha Mehran

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Mehran, Marsha

Rosewater and soda bread: a novel/Marsha Mehran.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-54466-7

1. Iranians—Ireland—Fiction. 2. Foundlings—Fiction. 3. Restaurateurs—Fiction.

4. Restaurants—Fiction. 5. Sisters—Fiction. 6. Ireland—Fiction. 7. Cookery—

Fiction. 8. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

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