Nancy Pearl's guest on this edition of Book Lust is Nassim Assefi, a 2nd generation Iranian-American who is an internist specializing in women's health and global medicine. Her first novel, Aria, examines the struggle of a young cancer specialist and single mother to come to grips with her daughter's death and to reconnect with her estranged Iranian parents and heritage. She is currently writing a second novel set in post-conflict Afghanistan entitled Say I Am You. She lives in Istanbul with her husband Miguel. Most recently, she has been an academic in Seattle, a humanitarian aid worker and underground salsa dance teacher in Kabul, and an aspiring musician in Havana. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, UW Medical School, and Harvard's Brigham and Women's residency program.
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