Oscar nominee and Emmy Award&;winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shares her remarkable personal journey&;from a childhood in the Shah&;s Iran to the red carpets of Hollywood&;in The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines, a dazzling memoir of family, faith, and hope. When Shohreh Aghdashloo was growing up in Teheran, stardom was a distant dream, especially since her parents had more practical plans for their daughter&; When revolution swept Iran in 1978, the Ayatollah Khomeini&;s religious regime brought stifling restrictions on women and art. Shohreh Aghdashloo seized the moment and boldly left her husband for Europe and eventually, America, a vastly different culture. Shohreh Aghdashloo writes poignantly about her struggles as an outsider in a new culture&;as a woman, a Muslim, and a Persian&;adapting to a new land and a new language, and shares behind-the-scenes stories about what it&;s really like to be an actress in Hollywood.

The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines includes original color photographs from the author.