Thank You My Friend | Red Room

"They'll be the first to buy and read your book," Hesam's beautiful eighteen-year old daughter, Leila, who had just graduated from high school and was admitted to Stanford, assured me. Both kids spoke English fluently. ... It wasn't until I was on my flight coming back to the States that I realized I had forgotten to tell my friend that my story didn't depict the Middle Eastern men in the bitter way he had described. At first I thought of writing him an email but I ...