The Sky Detective: A Memoir - Hardcover

Tabazadeh, Azadeh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1491760621 ISBN 13: 9781491760628

Publisher: iUniverse, 2015

Synopsis

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When Azadeh was an eight-year-old girl growing up in Iran in March 1973, her uncle gave her a chemistry kit. That got her hooked on science early and provided an opportunity for her to find herself. In The Sky Detective, Azadeh shares her life story-one that includes an insider's look at life during the Islamic Revolution and Iraqi War and details how one little girl grew up to become a gifted scientist.

Set inside Iran in the final years of the monarchy, the author narrates a true story of friendship between two girls growing up in the same household in Tehran: Azadeh, the daughter of an affluent engineer, and Najmieh, a child servant who arrives from a small village in northern Iran to live with Azadeh's family. When the girls are teenagers, political turmoil interrupts their lives, sending them down different paths.

This memoir recalls friendship and faith, the bonds between parents and daughters in a paternalistic society, and the clash of values among relatives from different generations in a family. The Sky Detective describes the rich culture of a beautiful but deeply troubled land undergoing radical transformation. In spite of the hardship that comes along with the establishment of a theocratic regime, Azadeh shows her will and determination as a young woman to persevere and realize her childhood dream of becoming a world-renowned scientist.

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About this title

About the Author:

Azadeh Tabazadeh earned a doctoral degree in chemistry from UCLA. She has worked at NASA, taught at Stanford University, and published more than sixty scientific articles. Among her many accolades are a Presidential White House Award and a feature article in Time that details her personal life and scientific discoveries. Excerpts from her memoir have won recognition at two writers' conferences. Azadeh has three children and lives in Mountain View, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1491760621
• ISBN 13: 9781491760628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246