Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith is the second novel from Gina B. Nahai, Iranian Jewish-and follows the story of Lili and her mother’s mysterious disappearance. The book was published in 2000 by Washington Square Press in the United States and became a Los Angles Times bestseller.
summary of this story : When she is five years old, Lili watches her mother, Roxanna the Angel, throw herself off the balcony of their house on the Avenue of Faith. Her family’s subsequent search for her reveals no body, no sign of a fall, no trace of an escape. The only witness to Roxanna’s disappearance, Lili will spend the next thirteen years looking for her mother, wondering if she is still alive and why she left.
The novel tells the life story of Roxanna, born as a “bad-luck child” in the Jewish ghetto of Tehran, through the world of Iran’s aristocracy, into the whorehouses of Turkey and to Los Angeles, where she and Lili are reunited
