"You can't escape your destiny," Mahvash's father always said. 

As a young Baha'i girl growing up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War, Mahvash lived in daily terror of religious persecution and bombing raids. She took destiny into her own hands.

Mahvash escaped under cover of darkness on a solo trek across the border.

This courageous and hopeful memoir is a portrait of a childhood cut short, a young woman's journey to flee oppression. It is the story of a refugee who learns what it means to come home.

Daylight Forever shares one immigrant's struggle for freedom, opportunity and belonging  —  and examines the tapestry of personal differences, which, through tears and determination, have been woven into our shared human destiny.