Parnaz Foroutan was born in Iran and spent her early childhood there. THE GIRL FROM THE GARDEN, for which she received PEN USA’s Emerging Voices award, was inspired by her family history. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

Books by Parnaz Foroutan

The Girl from the Garden

by Parnaz Foroutan - Fiction

An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran.