Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree Author:Farnoosh Moshiri In the dozen stories in The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree, Farnoosh Moshiri combines social and political insight with the mythology of her native Iran. Her earlier books, At the Wall of the Almighty and The Bathhouse (whish also won the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction), were both set in Iran. The present book is set both in ... more »Iran and the United States. Several of the stories are concerned with the loss of status, the poverty, and the loss of identity that immigrants often endure. Unlike most immigrant stories, The Crazy Dervish... deals equally with the violence and political repression visited upon those who would emigrate during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran.« less