This is the story of Feyzolah and his granddaughter Samira, a second generation Iranian-American Jew, as she explores the complexities of Iran for the first time. Her journey to Isfahan to find a book her grandfather buried under a fig tree, a book he claims can save him from Alzheimer???s and the burden of disremembering, is neither simple nor easy. Samira???s story is woven alongside her grandfather???s more mystical tale beginning inside the early twentieth century Jewish ghettos in Isfahan. The complexities of Feyzolah???s story are central, coated with one major secret that not even he knows. Samira ultimately discovers more than just her grandfather???s book, but the very truth she has been looking for. This is a story about the thing...