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   Sara Saedi was two when her parents fled Iran to California. Her new memoir describes her 18-year-long path to citizenship, and the lingering anxiety of being undocumented.

2. www.npr.org › 2018/03/28 › 597746348Growing Up Undocumented : Fresh Air : NPR

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   Mar 28, 2018 · Sara Saedi was two when her parents fled Iran and moved to California. Her new memoir, 'Americanized,' describes her 18-year-long path to citizenship, and the lingering anxiety of being undocumented.

3. www.getunderlined.com › article › in-this-nprIn this NPR Interview Author Sara Saedi Tells Us the Truth ...

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   In her memoir Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card, author Sara Saedi tells us her story of growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East. At age thirteen, as a bright-eyed, straight-A student, she discovered that she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States.

4. sarasaediwriter.comSara Saedi – TV Writer & Author

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   Four starred reviews. At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. From discovering that her parents secretly divorced to facilitate her mother’s green card application to learning how to tame her unibrow, Sara pivots gracefully from ...

5. www.npr.org › 2018/03/31 › 597927990Fresh Air Weekend: 'Daily Show' Correspondent Roy Wood ... - NPR

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   Mar 31, 2018 · Wood says performing in comedy clubs in the South and Midwest prepared him for The Daily Show. Sara Saedi describes her 18-year-long path to U.S. citizenship. Justin Chang reviews Ready Player One.

6. writerinterviews.blogspot.com › 2018 › 03author interviews: Sara Saedi - Blogger

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   Mar 3, 2018 · From the transcript of her Fresh Air interview with NPR's Terry Gross:TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest says her life began during a hostage crisis, a revolution and a war. When Sara Saedi was born in Iran in 1980, Americans were being held hostage by revolutionary Iranian students who had stormed the American embassy.

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   Who is Sara Saedi?

   • Sara Saedi was two when her parents fled Iran to California. Her new memoir describes her 18-year-long path to citizenship, and the lingering anxiety of being undocumented. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest says her life began during a hostage crisis, a revolution and a war.

   'Americanized' Recounts What It's Like To Grow Up Undocumented

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   What happened to Saedi on iZombie?

   • Her family fled when she was 2 and came to California where they had relatives. When their visitors visas expired, they stayed, hoping their green cards would eventually be approved. During the long wait, they lived here illegally. Saedi is now a U.S. citizen. She writes for The CW series "iZombie."

   'Americanized' Recounts What It's Like To Grow Up Undocumented

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   Why did Saedi have a unibrow?

   • SAEDI: It was in response to a guy that I had a crush on my freshman year of high school who sat next to me in English class. And one day, we - I thought we were flirting and just, like, making fun of each other. And he pointed out the fact that I had a unibrow.

   'Americanized' Recounts What It's Like To Grow Up Undocumented

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   Is Saedi from iZombie a US citizen?

   • Saedi is now a U.S. citizen. She writes for The CW series "iZombie." So while you're going through all this teenage angst about, you know, boys and how you look and your acne, you also learned that your grandmother in Iran, when she was married, she had an affair with her husband's nephew. And then her husband left her.

   'Americanized' Recounts What It's Like To Grow Up Undocumented

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   FEATURED ON NPR'S FRESH AIR A NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST OF THE BEST BOOK SELECTION A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOUR STARRED REVIEWS "A must-read, vitally important memoir. . . . Poignant and often LOL funny, Americanized is utterly of the moment."--Bustle "Read Saedi's memoir to push out the ...