Review: Bird of Passage by Dr. Nooshie Motaref
Bird of Passage by author Dr. Nooshie Motaref is a fascinating account of a woman born in Iran who moves through the world looking for love, spiritual healing, and an understanding of what has happened to her homeland.
Wherever Mitra goes, she finds adventure, insecurity, romance, danger and, at times, disappointment. Yet her inner strength remains honed to the tasks that face her. Her namesake, from Indo-Persian mythology, is a wise woman who speaks truth, “with a thousand ears…ten thousand eyes.” This fortitude will be especially needed, as when following the ascension to power of the Khomeini regime in Iran, […]
Nooshie Motaref, author, storyteller, and biographer, has gone through many challenging life experiences unlike many women from the Middle East. She grew up in Persia, and studies in four countries – Iran, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. She received her masters and doctorate degrees in American Literature and folklore from Florida State University. Her dissertation is a proof of Carl Jung’s theory, the “Collective Unconscious,” through Persian fairytales and folktales. She is the author of Land of Roses and Nightingales, and award-winning novel, Tapestries of the Heart, which is a precursor to Bird of Passage.