 Hello readers, I'm Suzanne Perry, author of the novel in the time of our history about a large Iranian American family of traditional immigrants and their rebellious American born children. The story focuses on two sisters and their mother, who alternately clash and come together in their struggle against the family's patriarch. These women strive to understand and redefine their roles as mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and aunties, even if this means shaking the family's very foundation. It's set between San Francisco and New Jersey in the late 1990s, just before 9-11, and is one family's journey to discover how it can evolve and flourish in a better form to meet the difficult times we live in. For me, fiction captures the many ways in which women, immigrants and American born, rebel against traditional ways and in so doing find their place in the world.