Against this extraordinary background, Ashley's journey into adulthood was more helter-skelter than most and this portrait of a bewitching and endlessly inventive mother is surprising and deeply moving. It's an honest and endlessly recognisable portrait of a mother by a daughter who loved her (and was loved in return).
Farangi Girl deserves to be in their company. Stories of mothers and daughters are some of the most compelling in contemporary memoir, from The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Bad Blood. And throughout it all, Ashley's passionate and strong-willed mother, Genie. There were bankruptcies and prisons, betrayals and lovers, lies and evasions. But somehow it didn't all add up to a fairytale. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners was rich and privileged. She certainly didn't have an easy life but made the best of the little she had with her two younger brothers. Ashley Dartnell was born & raised by her American mother & her British father in Iran. Ashley Dartnell's mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. Farangi Girl by Ashley Dartnell Ashley Dartnell grew up in Iran under the Shah with an American mother and a British father. Farangi Girl is a true story of the author's life.
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