A Girl in an Empty House

Born in a rural desert town to a family of Persian immigrants, Miriam was twelve years old the first time she had three meals in one day.

The tenth daughter of twelve siblings, she was raised so far away from anyone who might care that there was no one around to see her endure the debilitating malnourishment that first brought her close to death before she was school age. Or the violent outbursts of her physically and verbally abusive father. Or the unrelenting, wall-to-wall poverty that fueled their desperate lives.

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