Taghi Modarressi was born in Iran and educated as a doctor. He continued his education in the United States and became a member of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the author of The Book of Absent People and The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette. He was married to the novelist Anne Tyler. Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature and Associate Dean for Academic Personnel in the School of Humanities at University of California, Irvine. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Iranian Studies. She is the author of several books including Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History.
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"A closely observed study of estrangement, telling the parallel stories of teenage Nuri, a blond, blue-eyed Iranian, and his Austrian grandmother." - Booklist "Taghi Modarressi represented the best of his generation of writers: an openness, a generosity of spirit, a playful seriousness and a love for writing that cut across the boundaries of time, and limitations of culture and politics." -Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran