Two Iranian women are caught up in revolutions thirty years apart, but it is a third woman—the woman that connects them—that carries the scars of loss that time has not healed.
Omid's Shadow tells the story of Omid, the daughter of one revolutionary and the mother of another.

Laced with the literary wisdom of Iran's great poets, the novel draws on and illuminates a Middle Eastern culture that continues to fascinate readers. Omid's Shadow, although fiction, draws on many actual events that occurred on Tehran's streets after the election in June of 2009. Like the great tragedies of literature—from Romeo and Juliet to A Doll's House to Ragtime to The Kite Runner—Omid's Shadow takes us from the public politics of the street fight to the private power of the human heart.

ABNA 2011 Semifinalist title

From Publishers Weekly
This timely political novel features three generations of Iranian women who dare to stand up to repressive regimes. Scenes alternate between a worried mother in Connecticut and her naïve daughter who becomes a passionate reform activist and hunted fugitive in Tehran. In Connecticut, Omi sees her marriage crumbling and regrets telling her daughter about the family's fate at the hands of the Khomeini government and her own past as a student activist. The importance of social media to populist reform and revolutionary movements is demonstrated convincingly. Urgent appeals to embassies and official departments yield more delays than information, but Facebook updates, text messaging, and prepaid phones dramatically reduce the isolation of the repressed. Relevant and realistic, this novel is a fair fit for those concerned about the changing nature of world politics.