The Girl From Revolution Road
“A book for our times, written with wit, lyricism, cynicism and tenderness. ”
“Simultaneously light and serious, wanting to connect, always to the point.”
“Ghazaleh has a lot to tell you. And god, do you want to listen.”
“It’s the first word rather than the last, but still: The Girl from Revolution Road is an important book. An excellent gift for every racist relative who won’t shut up.
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A powerful collection of personal essays on displacement, being different and living between two worlds, told with humour and self-reflection. Based on Ghazaleh Gol's experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trauma of a night spent in prison as a six-year-old, to learning English so she could make friends, to dating in the days of Corona. This is about growing up as a young woman torn between her immigrant roots and her desire to be like everyone else.
Published by Allen & Unwin NZ
Available at all good bookshops and online in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia.
Available in the UK at WHS Smith, Foyles, Waterstones and others.
Available in the US at Amazon, Target and Nook books at Barnes&Noble.
“This is a book full of pain, tenderness and surprising amounts of humour.”
Otherhood
Edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien and Kathryn van Beek
Another Birth by Ghazaleh Gol
Published May 09, 2024
In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back against the narrative that if they don’t, their lives will be somehow ‘less than’.
Otherhood’s essays are by writers who’ve felt on the outside looking in, who’ve lived unexpected lives and who’ve given the finger to social expectations. Some chose to be childfree, some didn’t get to choose and some — through bereavement or blended family dynamics — ask themselves: Am I a mother or am I other?
Thought-provoking, moving and often hilarious, Otherhood opens a more inclusive conversation about what makes a fulfilling life.
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, this fresh, exciting anthology features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as kōrero or conversations between writers and work by local and international artists.
Includes a collaboration with Catherine McNamara and Ghazaleh Gol “Overturning Motherhood”.
Released May 2023
Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand
Contributing chapter, Hyphenated Identity
Editors: Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris and James Norcliffe.
Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art created in response to the editors’ questions: What is New Zealand now, in all its rich variety and contradiction, darkness and light? Who are New Zealanders?
The works flowed in from well-known names and new voices, from writers and artists from Kerikeri to Bluff. Some are teenagers still at school; some are in their eighties. Māori, Pākehā, Pasifika, Asian, new migrants, young voices, queer writers, social warriors ... Aotearoa’s many faces are represented in this unique and important compendium.
A list of all contributors can be found at https://wearenewzealand.org/
PUBLISHED: October 2020 by Otago University Press.
Available at all good bookshops and online in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Elsewhere on Book Depository or Amazon.
“‘We’re part of the story of contemporary New Zealand,’ writes Ghazaleh Golbakhsh. And as this fine anthology proves, contemporary New Zealand has many stories of us.”