She returns to Barcelona, her family's last stop before arriving in the U.S., to confront the intellectual, spiritual, and moral residues of colonialism and capitalism.
In order to honor her ancestors, Zebra decides to make a "Grand Tour of Exile" through the Old World. The Zebra, she muses, is "an animal striped black-and-white like a prisoner of war an animal that rejects all binaries, that represents ink on paper" it's a name fit for an outsider, and she takes it on. Now, more than a decade after fleeing Iran, with her parents both dead, Bibi seeks a new mentor, vocation, and identity. Raised in Iran during the height of the Iraq War, Bibi fled with her parents, the last survivors of a proud tribe of “Autodidacts, Anarchists, Atheists.” Their journey was filled with horrors-death, fatigue, and hunger-and it haunts her into a fractured adulthood in New York City.
A young woman struggles to make sense of the tragedy of exile, embarking on a series of pilgrimages that may destroy her chance for happiness.īibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini, the thorny, tragicomic heroine of Van der Vliet Oloomi’s ( Fra Keeler, 2012, etc.) darkly funny novel, is a narrator who deliberately resists categorization.
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