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|title=Things We Left Unsaid

|author=Zoya Pirzad

|publisher=Oneworld Publications

|date=May 2012

|summary=In this wonderfully humorous but touching novel about identity, set against an Iranian backdrop, Armenian-Iranian housewife and mother Clarice Ayvazian has everything she wants in life. Everything, that is, until slightly unusual neighbours move in and then nothing is the same again.

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Life in Iran is good for Armenian Clarice Ayvazian. She lives comfortably in an oil company town, devoting her middle class life to her engineer husband, teenage son and young twin daughters. Her mother and sister, Alice, drop in from time to time during the course of the day, but are perfectly manageable for her (in small doses). However, when an elderly woman, her middle-aged son and his tween-age daughter move in across the road they bring turmoil in their wake and Clarice's perception of her happiness is torn apart.