The personal experience articulated in this book provides the reader with more than a single person’s experiential description of events during the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. This book is about an extraordinary and personal experience in Iran. It begins in San Diego on April 15, 1978. Three months later I awoke immersed in a parallel world populated by people of unimaginably different culture, customs, religion, and approach to coping with life’s challenges. Full of wonderment at my new adventure in a land rich with history, soon I would come to terms with changing political events while living in a neighborhood where Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1978 and 1979 ebbed and flowed. This was the neighborhood where revolution was at its most intense, highly contested, violent, and deadly.
