I marched to forget, to numb and to deaden.” It was the remnants of my baby with someone I loved. “My abortion was thick and clumpy, heavier than a period,” Shirazi writes. The excerpt opens with shocking detail of Shirazi’s recent abortion that is just a preview of the even more disturbing descriptions that are yet to come. However, the explicit nature of her writing is precisely the reason why her memoir was not published until now, when Igniter Books publishers Neil Strauss and Anthony Bozza bravely decided to help her publish this honest and moving account of female sexuality in a Muslim world.īased on an exclusive excerpt of the book, it is clear that The Last Living Slut is indeed “dirtier than The Dirt” and “makes Pamela DesBarres’ I’m With the Band read like a nun’s diary in comparison.” As an outspoken female author from a culture in which women have rigid guidelines to live by, Shirazi chose not to shy away from such delicate topics rather, she constantly reflected these themes in her articles, poetry, and prose.
In her gripping first-person memoir, Shirazi not only delves into vivid accounts of her own past as a notorious groupie, but also openly challenges the restrictive nature of Muslim culture when it comes to public displays of female sexuality.Īll throughout her life, Shirazi has faced difficulties with cultural turmoil, ranging from the Iranian political revolution that forced her to flee her native land to fitting into an unfamiliar London society and living the tumultuous life of a rock band groupie. Iranian author Roxana Shirazi’s first book, The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage, is essentially a book that tackles two sensitive issues which so far have mostly eluded the printed word.
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