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Thirty Seconds of Silence is the story of 170 years of injustice and discrimination against the Baha'i Faith, the largest religious minority in Iran. In this vivid and emotional first person memoir, Fereshteh starts out as a young girl living a happy life with her family, despite the rampant discrimination, persecution, and oppression that surrounds them for their beliefs. One day her father is warned that the town's Muslim clergy are urging people to kill her family for disobeying Sharia Law, under which the Baha'i Faith is illegal. A mob attacks, but her mother faces them and gives a powerful speech, shaming them into regret. For young Fereshteh, this is her life's turning point. The family escapes to Shiraz, struggling to save their lives as the country erupts in revolution, experiencing homelessness, sickness, trauma, poverty, and death, until finally fleeing to the United States.

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As a little girl in Iran, Fereshteh Roshan and her family were forced by terrible social and religious discrimination to leave their happy life on a farm and flee to Shiraz. She then found herself growing up in the midst of an eight-year war, living through persecution and injustice, going through phases of oppression and harassment, and finally immigrating to the United States as a refugee mom. Hers is a story filled with the emotional swing of tears and laughter, fear and courage, crisis and escape, some very thoughtful moments, and silence...

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