Book of the Week - When Skateboards Will Be Free
Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir
Book of the Week - When Skateboards Will Be Free - Episode 1
Confident that his absent father will one day lead a revolution, young Said is content to join in the struggle - until he finds that the rules extend to boycotting certain foods.
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Book of the Week - When Skateboards Will Be Free - Episode 2
Said, now ten, and his mother move from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh. While his mom attends Socialist Workers Party meetings, Said faces the terrors of strange noises and eerie shadows.
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Book of the Week - When Skateboards Will Be Free - Episode 3
One night Said's mother receives a rare phone call from her estranged husband and is so distraught that she takes the phone off its hook every night.
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Book of the Week - When Skateboards Will Be Free - Episode 4
It is the time of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and Said is bullied at school because he says that the American diplomats were spies.
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Book of the Week - When Skateboards Will Be Free - Episode 5
Now grown up, Said takes a job in the corporate offices of Martha Stewart. He loves buying designer accoutrements for his tiny apartment and falls in love with a co-worker, Karen.
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