The Cypress Tree

Kamin mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled iran during the 1979 revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with british attitudes to family , food and freedom . she was twenty-seven before she returned to iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother’s house in abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very walls steeped in history.