There is a particular kind of loss that comes with leaving home. You can leave a house. You can leave a city. You can even leave a country. But leaving the version of yourself that existed there is much harder. That is what stayed with me while reading Shiraz Nomad's A Place We Used to Call Home. On the surface, this is a memoir about growing up in post-revolution Iran, living through political upheaval, witnessing violence and repression, enduring imprisonment, and eventuall