Maman's Homesick Pie

Chef Donia Bijan, whose family fled from Iran during the Islamic revolution and settled in San Francisco in 1978, mixes memoir and recipes in perfect proportion as she tells her family's history, from her parents' struggle to acclimate to their new country to her own culinary awakening and accomplishments. Sweet, warm, and full of flavor.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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