Author Laleh Khadivi to discuss her book "The Walking" at the San Leandro Library

The Walking is the second novel in a trilogy about Laleh Khadivi’s homeland of Iran, a country poised between the ancient and the modern worlds and torn by the winds of political strife that has blown across the world. While this is the story of two brothers who fled Iran when a new regime comes into power in 1979, it could be easily be the story of the thousands who in reality did flee Iran during this time.

Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan Iran on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. Since leaving Iran she has lived in cities around the globe. Her debut novel, The Age of Orphans, received the Whiting Award for Fiction, the Barnes and Nobles Discover New Writers Award and an Emory Fiction Fellowship.

The Age of Orphans is the first book in a trilogy that follows three generations of Kurdish and Kurdish American men and their experiences of home, exile and migration in the 20th and 21st centuries. The second book of the trilogy, The Walking, was recently published. Her work has been translated into eight languages.