This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
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Author: Navied Mahdavian
Before Navied Mahdavian moved from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted or lived in a snowy place. Mahdavian found himself enjoying a slower pace of living. But he was also confronted with the realities of America’s political shifts and forced to confront the question: Do I belong here? Mahdavian’s beautifully written and unflinchingly honest graphic memoir charts his growth and struggles as an artist, citizen and new father. It celebrates his love of place and honours the relationships he makes in rural America even as it articulates difficult moments of racism and brutality he experienced as a Middle Eastern American. With wit, humour, and compassion, Mahdavian offers an insider’s portrait of one of the most remote and wild areas of the American West.
ISBN 9781797223674. Princeton Architectural Press. pb. 288 pages. 280 b/w ills. 15 x 23 cm.
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Before Navied Mahdavian moved from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted or lived in a snowy place. Mahdavian found himself enjoying a slower pace of living. But he was also confronted with the realities of America’s political shifts and forced to confront the question: Do I belong here? Mahdavian’s beautifully written and unflinchingly honest graphic memoir charts his growth and struggles as an artist, citizen and new father. It celebrates his love of place and honours the relationships he makes in rural America even as it articulates difficult moments of racism and brutality he experienced as a Middle Eastern American. With wit, humour, and compassion, Mahdavian offers an insider’s portrait of one of the most remote and wild areas of the American West.
ISBN 9781797223674. Princeton Architectural Press. pb. 288 pages. 280 b/w ills. 15 x 23 cm.
available