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Good read because it kept my interest as I was trying to figure out what it meant. I did not get it until afterwards as I read the reviews - the bottom line is be careful with how you see- we look for signs and many times the signs are just reflections of stuff in us.Another way of Seeing Ershada is Seeing What You Wanna See
"How much time we wasted, she wrote, believing that things came to us as gifts, through channels of wonder, in the form of signs, in the love of men, in the name of God, rather than seeing them for what they were: strengths that we dragged up from the nothingness of our own depths."An enigmatic and haunting story I read in The New Yorker. Two creative ambitious women share the same epiphany - represented by the face of an actor in an Iranian film. The face will reappear at intervals in their liv...
Nice meta short story that I would have liked to analyze more. However, I feel let down a bit that the film, Taste of Cherry, that plays such a central role in the short story actually exists. I mean, cool, now I have a film that I want to watch, but also it’s completely spoiled by the short story. Was going to say something about the intersection of different media in the story—dance, film, storytelling within the story, the doubling (the main character’s story about seeing the lead non-actor o...
i read this is a short story in the new yorker. a luminous and poignant tale of emotional struggle and first world problems, modern independent jewish woman variety. it does a lot with the film 'taste of cherry' - made me think of how one work of art launches another. i hope someone will commission a review by ershadi.
Eh, boring.
written well but i didn't see any good meaning to it or thought it was a captivating sroty