Tehran, 1986. Sixteen-year-old DiBa navigates a city transformed by revolution and war, where sirens interrupt birthday parties, morality police patrol the streets, and a mysterious window across the road opens and closes with unsettling precision. DiBa: A Girl in the Shadow of Revolution is the first volume of The Continental Shift Series, a memoir told through the eyes of an extraordinarily curious young woman coming of age in one of history's most turbulent cities. With wit, warmth and unflinching honesty, M.B.Why chronicles the friendships, family loyalties and quiet acts of courage that defined a generation of Iranian women who refused to stop asking why. From hijacked biology classes and ice cream runs in borrowed Mercedes cars to rooftop surveillance and the children she protected through darkening parks, DiBa captures the texture of ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances. At its heart this is a story about curiosity as survival, about a girl who observed everything, questioned everything and emerged from the shadow of revolution with her voice completely intact. Funny. Heartbreaking. Impossible to forget.
