Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later|he would be received into the Roman Catholic Church.

In From Fire|by Water|he recounts this unlikely passage|from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young intellectual's finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection of the great ideas and events of our time|the book marks the debut of a compelling new Catholic voice.