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Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour
Journal #1 In Prochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects, she writes about an Iranian family’s immigration to America and their life together upon arriving in the states. Khakpour strives to avoid writing about the typical Iranian family and, therefore, strays away writing her novel similarly to “the traditional immigrant narrative.”. Flammable solid items such as strike anywhere matches and other flammable and combustible materials (e.g. for a fondue) Flammable liquids such as lacquers, thinners, petrol or solvents; Flammable and non-flammable paints; Objects that release flammable gases on contact with water Download overview of dangerous goods (PDF) Download. Thesis 1 In the novel Of Sons and Other Flammable Objects, Porochista Khakpour details the intricate interplay between conflicting lifestyles arousing from generational differences. This conflict becomes apparent in the relationship between the characters Darius Adam and Xerxes Adam as it leads to the inevitable exile of Xerxes from his home in Los Angeles.
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Growing up, Xerxes Adam is painfully aware that he is different—with an understanding of his Iranian heritage that vacillates from typical teenage A wry and haunting first novel from a fresh Iranian-American writer, Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering, redemption, and the role of memory and inheritance in making peace with our worlds. Growing up, Xerxes Adam is painfully aware that he is different—with an understanding of his Iranian heritage that vacillates from typical teenage embarrassment to something so tragic it can barely be spoken.
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This was a random used-bookstore find, which can be great or still. But sometimes? The books that don't get the buzz and the fame really just aren't as good.
And this is one of them. The book started out very impressive. Porochista's got a lovely way with words, with long, twisty, metaphor-heavy sentences. She creates a very good sense of This was a random used-bookstore find, which can be great or still. She creates a very good sense of place. There are only a few characters, and they're very developed. It's mainly just a family: husband wife kid, Iranian refugees in LA.
Everything that happens has a lot of gravitas, all these background and foreground sons and other flammable objects pdf download where you know she worked really hard to sculpt and craft them so they would be complex and shiny and resonant.
But um—and this is a criticism I would not have expected from myself—that shit becomes really tiresome after a couple hundred pages. And the dramatic buildup is just way overdone after a while, especially because she does this really weird thing where she overexplains and overexpositions all this buildup to a mini-climax, detailing everyone's mental processes before and during a conversation, going on and on about the symbolism and people's histories and what led them to the point where they are sitting in this specific place having this specific conversation where everything is about to go horribly wrong And then a section break, and we are in a different city watching someone else do something totally different.
Which I guess is a tactic for like suspense writers? But this is literary fiction, and the "Bad Thing" is like a two-minute exchange between a father and a son, and it's going to be fifty more pages until I find out what was actually said? That is so fucking annoying. And on some of those mini-climaxes she doesn't actually ever detail the Bad Thing, or she kind of hints at it, but then it's hard for me to even get why the Bad Thing is so bad actually.
Shit, I have to leave. More later! But before I continue bashing poor Porochista, I have to say another thing that I'm surprised to hear myself admit: this is the very first literary treatment of September 11th that has not made me enraged. Let me see if I can explain why that is. First of all, sons and other flammable objects pdf download, it's not screamed about on the back cover, nor is it at treated like it's the sons and other flammable objects pdf download focus of the book, nor is it lazily inserted as a shorthand for "a certain time and place and all the feelings that go along with that," nor is it a bid for sympathy or seriousness on the part of an author who deserves neither.
So this is an important plot device, because of course only the most heartless kid would not call his parents to tell them that he's alive on the afternoon of September 11th, which of course allows the story to move on from talking and thinking about not talking into thinking about and actually talking again. So: props for that. But all the same, meh. This is not a terrific book. It's too long, it's too wordy, and despite all the over-description, I still never really felt like I understood the characters, sons and other flammable objects pdf download, who all did a lot of strange and wrong things that I would not have expected.
None of them are really very sympathetic sons and other flammable objects pdf download likable. Things are not resolved, for all that they are exhaustively described. Oh and? I just now noticed that the cover endorsement is sons and other flammable objects pdf download Joshua Ferris. I should have fucking known. View all 7 comments.
Jul 12, Tes rated it liked it. I had sons and other flammable objects pdf download hard time caring for any of the characters in this book. They were a dysfunctional family but with no redeeming qualities. I do not think that the dysfunction was from being immigrants -- I think the characters were already dysfunctional. I know there was a lot of angst for the son growing up in 2 cultures.
The real problems I had a hard time caring for any of the characters in this book. The real problems throughout were obviously the relationships or lack of them between the triangle of father, son, mother. View 1 comment. I have never read a book that provided so many characters interior monologues, and come away knowing so little about them.
I am baffled by this book, by the disassociation that seems to exist between the author's words and the things they describe, much more than the purposeful and situational disassociation of the characters from the things they loved. And the end, at the airport, with character D and character S. Khakpour, in the tradition of Zadie Smith, sons and other flammable objects pdf download, gives us a long novel with a simple sons and other flammable objects pdf download plot: the Adams' move from Iran to America.
They all have difficulty adjusting, especially the patriarch, Darius. This breeds a bad home situation, and eventually Darius' son, Xerxes, grows up, moves from his LA to New York, and refuses to speak to his father. Throughout the novel, Darius struggles with the conflicting impulses to both push his son away and reclaim him as his own, while Xerxes, grappling with an identity crisis, slowly comes to the realization that he can't disown his family if he wants to properly figure out who he is.
I keep wanting to call this a Great American Novel, which in some respects it is: it is long and the prose is fantastically well-written, the author is an American citizen, and it has something in common with other books that have been given that vague title--The Corrections, Infinite Jest, etc. On the other hand, none of its main characters are born in America, and none of them seem to feel particularly American. But, as they eventually learn, what they're looking for can't be found; the US is a collage of immigrant cultures, which amalgamate to form something truly bizarre and incoherent.
Perhaps that is what makes it the ultimate Great American Novel--that Khakpour seems to reject the very idea of an "American" anything. Mar 29, Beth rated it did not like it. I had a really hard time getting into this book because of the author's writing style. And on top of it, I just didn't really like any of the characters very much. Feb 23, Sons and other flammable objects pdf download rated it it was amazing.
Second time reading. Again, sons and other flammable objects pdf download, I don't quite understand why more people haven't read this book--it's really fantastic. Very carefully written, the prose is beautiful, and the story rewards multiple reads. I'm teaching it this semester to students who, for the most part, don't read for pleasure, sons and other flammable objects pdf download, and many of them have told me how much they've been enjoying it.
Oct 25, Rachel rated it did not like it Shelves: fictionabandoned-for-now. I couldn't get into this book and eventually gave up. Jul 19, Izetta Autumn rated it really liked it Shelves: general-fiction. Sons and Other Flammable Objects, revolves around the life of the Adam properly pronounced Odd-damn, as some of the wittiest writing in the novel explains family.
The novel focuses with laser-like quality on the life of Xerxes Adam, the wayward, confused, bicultural Iranian-American son, whose obsessions with Barbara Eden, mediocrity, a desperate desire to assimilate, and determination never to return to his family ground the novel.
Sons, is a modern-day bildungsroman, albeit one that takes Sons and Other Flammable Objects, revolves around the life of the Adam properly pronounced Odd-damn, sons and other flammable objects pdf download, as some of the wittiest writing in the novel explains family.
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Journal #1 In Prochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects, she writes about an Iranian family’s immigration to America and their life together upon arriving in the states. Khakpour strives to avoid writing about the typical Iranian family and, therefore, strays away writing her novel similarly to “the traditional immigrant narrative.”. Dec 14, · 9 Common Household Items That Are Extremely Flammable. Watch the entire video to see six other household items that are extremely flammable. View this video on YouTube. A wry and haunting first novel from a fresh Iranian-American writer, Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering, redemption, and the role of memory and inheritance in making peace with our worlds. Growing up, Xerxes Adam is painfully aware that he is different—with an understanding of his Iranian heritage that vacillates from typical teenage/5(68).
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