{"product_id":"the-road-between-hearts-9781960876980","title":"The Road Between Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere's the story of a Black American language and culture professor who is too ashamed to admit she is terrified of moving to post-revolutionary Iran with her husband. Nevertheless, she packs up her life in Columbus, Ohio, and ventures off to her husband's homeland with him and their one-year-old daughter in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first two weeks, the \"morality police\" stop her for wearing stockings that aren't black enough, and she is herded to the back of a bus whose passengers are segregated by gender. Did she make a terrible mistake, as she had feared?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then... she spots a framed photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X smiling down on her from her in-laws' wall. There's the moment when an unexpected treasure from her devout Muslim in-laws is slipped into her hand. And the delicious aromas of saffron rice and cardamom tea do not escape her. That's when she begins to experience Iran and its people as having all the color, glamour, and humor she had secretly feared she would have to give up-but not without the complications, challenges, and contradictions that come with living in a new culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cross-cultural memoir and a love story, \u003cem\u003eThe Road Between Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e is Leslie Powell Ahmadi's account of her intercultural, interracial, and interfaith journeys-and the new pair of eyes she develops as a result!Here's the story of a Black American language and culture professor who is too ashamed to admit she is terrified of moving to post-revolutionary Iran with her husband. Nevertheless, she packs up her life in Columbus, Ohio, and ventures off to her husband's homeland with him and their one-year-old daughter in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first two weeks, the \"morality police\" stop her for wearing stockings that aren't black enough, and she is herded to the back of a bus whose passengers are segregated by gender. Did she make a terrible mistake, as she had feared?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then... she spots a framed photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X smiling down on her from her in-laws' wall. There's the moment when an unexpected treasure from her devout Muslim in-laws is slipped into her hand. And the delicious aromas of saffron rice and cardamom tea do not escape her. That's when she begins to experience Iran and its people as having all the color, glamour, and humor she had secretly feared she would have to give up-but not without the complications, challenges, and contradictions that come with living in a new culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cross-cultural memoir and a love story, \u003cem\u003eThe Road Between Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e is Leslie Powell Ahmadi's account of her intercultural, interracial, and interfaith journeys-and the new pair of eyes she develops as a result!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Muse Literary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781960876980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d","brand":"Leslie Powell Ahmadi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679598702773,"sku":"9781960876980","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-road-between-hearts-9781960876980","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}