{"product_id":"all-the-parts-we-exile-by-roza-nozari","title":"All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS - SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE JUDY GRAHN AWARD FOR LESBIAN NONFICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e appeals to the universal with this moving tribute to authenticity, resilience, and self-acceptance. With language full of wit and tenderness, this memoir reimagines familiar immigrant and coming out narratives to ask what parts of us need connection and healing. Nozari's powerful and fearless debut is a real testimony to the beauty of belonging that will resonate across identities and generations.\" \u003cb\u003e--2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize Jury (Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, Darrin Hagen, and Janika Oza)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Warm, moving, and poignant . . . Roza's voice is both raw and tender, compelling and confessional--you can't help but love her, and cheer her on to overcome and reconcile her challenges and obstacles, to ultimately find herself, her art and her place in the world.\" \u003cb\u003e--2025 Toronto Book Award citation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this luminous work, Roza Nozari bridges the void between what's been lost and what endures. Her story doesn't seek to erase the fractures but to honor them, showing how, even in a life of displacement, pieces of 'home' can be found in the quietest, most unexpected corners. \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us how trauma shapes us, not by breaking us, but by etching traces of where we've been, making us whole again, piece by piece.\" \u003cb\u003e--Samra Habib, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thought-provoking and meditative, \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e brings the plight of strong willed daughters, immigrant parents and their personal histories into clear empathetic light. Nozari's prose is nuanced and wrought with imagery, vivid and eloquent all at once. The memoir is symphonic in scope: orchestrating excruciating rites of familial identity, radical self-acceptance, loss, and personal growth. A talented writer and artist, Nozari deftly charts a moving history that is both complex and mesmerizing, sweeping across timelines and through the queer spaces of Toronto and Iran. A dazzling opus of what it means to be a person grasping for answers of belonging and emerging transformed. Nozari's journey invites readers to rethink the immigrant family narrative.\" \u003cb\u003e--Lindsay Wong, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woo-Woo \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With sparkling prose and captivating storytelling, \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e gifts insight into a life both relatable and unique. Roza Nozari does not equivocate, evade or apologize. Here is a story that is hard, soft, witty and touching.\" \u003cb\u003e --Jenny Heijun Wills, author of\u003ci\u003e Everything and Nothing At All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e wraps an immigrant, coming of age, and coming out story around each other, probing the question: how do we exist and fully belong across identities? A fearless exploration of the visceral longing for home, a reckoning with trauma, grief, and displacement, and an ode to the healing power of artmaking, this is an exquisitely written, honest, tender and enthralling memoir.\" \u003cb\u003e--Carmen Aguirre, author of \u003ci\u003eSomething Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this compelling memoir, Roza Nozari pieces together her mother's past while grappling with her own queerness. \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of a family of women trying their best with what they have, sorting through the detritus of migration and shame to find the parts of themselves they lost along the way.\" \u003cb\u003e--Catherine Hernandez, author and screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eScarborough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An overall intensely emotional, personal excavation of the self, \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is interspersed with emotive black-and-white self-portraits (by Nozari, naturally) and occasional moments of relief--usually evoked by descriptions of Persian food-related experiences and traditions. Easy to read, but by no means an easy read, written by a voice that has fought hard to come forth and demand our attention.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eScout Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS - SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, heartfelt and insightful memoir about family and finding the path to one's truest self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' emigration from Iran, Roza Nozari began her life hungry for a sense of belonging. From her earliest years, she shared a passion for Iranian cuisine with her mother and craved stories of their ancestral home. Eventually they visited and she fell in love with Iran's sights and smells, and with the warm embrace of their extended family. Yet Roza sensed something was amiss with her mother's happy, well-rehearsed story of their original departure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Roza grew older, this longing for home transformed into a desire for inner understanding and liberation. She was lit up by the feminist texts in her women's studies courses, and shared radical ideas with her mother--who in turn shared more of her past, from protesting for the Islamic revolution to her ambivalence about getting married. In \u003ci\u003eAll the Parts We Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, Roza braids a tender narrative of her mother's life together with her own ongoing story of self, as she arrives at, then rejects, her queer identity, eventually finds belonging in queer spaces and within queer Iranian histories, and learns the truth about her family's move to Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eROZA NOZARI is a writer, artist and therapist based in Tkaronto (\"Toronto\") and known as \u003ci\u003eYallaRoza \u003c\/i\u003eon social media. Her work weaves together writing and visual art to share stories of wounding, healing and community. It invites radical reimaginings of our world, towards one more invested in collective healing and liberation. She is the illustrator of three children's books: Little People, Big Dreams' \u003ci\u003eMindy Kaling\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eFluffy and the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Racist Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). Her illustrations have been featured locally and internationally--from university campuses to sports arenas and pride festivals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51829189148957,"sku":"9781039007048","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/5897\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-03at2.54.15pm.png?v=1780512885","url":"https:\/\/www.middleeastbooks.com\/products\/all-the-parts-we-exile-by-roza-nozari","provider":"Middle East Books and More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}