The Sky Detective – Los Altos Town Crier

August 27, 2015 By 2 Comments

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/inside-mountain-view/50953- Author chronicles Iran escape Published on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 01:06 Written by Eren Goknar: Special to the Los Altos Town Crier Photo Credit: Eren Goknar   Sitting next to a steamer trunk end table in her Mountain View townhouse, Azadeh Tabazadeh, former NASA Ames research scientist and Stanford University professor, describes her harrowing escape as a teen from the madness of close-minded mullahs. From the Iranian border town of Zahedan, the 17-year-old and her brother Afshin rode on the backs of mopeds and in a pickup truck, never knowing where they were going the next day. They fled with only two suitcases, leaving everything else – including their parents and younger sister Afshan – behind. At the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War in … [Read more...]

The Sky Detective – Kirkus Book Review

August 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Najmieh, my little sister Afshan, my mother Azar, my brother Afshin (Jahan) and me https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/azadeh-tabazadeh/sky-detective/ THE SKY DETECTIVE A Memoir Tabazadeh , Azadeh iUniverse (246 pp.) $19.95 paperback, $29.95 hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4917-6060-4 BOOK REVIEW A compelling debut memoir by an accomplished geophysical scientist that offers a vivid look at life in Tehran between 1973 and 1982, before and after the Iranian Revolution. Tabazadeh was just a few days shy of her eighth birthday in 1973 when her beloved uncle Mahmood gave her a present that would profoundly influence her life: a chemistry set. Tabazadeh was a happy, bright child living the privileged life of a daughter of an affluent family. With the shah still in power, Tehran was primarily a secular city, free of the … [Read more...]

The Sky Detective – Foreword Book Review

August 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment

  NASA Scientific Achievement Medal https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-sky-detective/   Foreword Reviews Reviewed by Kirsten Akens July 23, 2015 An Iranian scientist, whose accomplishments include a presidential award and working for NASA, shares her enticing story. In The Sky Detective, author Azadeh Tabazadeh tells an enticing story of growing up in, and escaping, Iran during the Islamic Revolution. The memoir opens in 2001 as Tabazadeh is about to receive a prestigious medal from the American Geophysical Union, for her outstanding scientific contributions. During her acceptance speech, the then-NASA employee references a gift her uncle gave her in 1973, when she was eight—a chemistry set that would inspire her for the rest of her life. The following chapter jumps back to that year, and … [Read more...]

The Sky Detective – Blueink Book Review (starred review)

August 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment

        Azadeh at eight http://www.blueinkreview.com/book-reviews/the-sky-detective-a-memoir/  An accomplished, award-winning American atmospheric scientist recounts her coming of age against the backdrop of the Iranian revolution in this engaging and deeply perceptive memoir. Growing up in ‘70s Tehran, Azadeh Tabazadeh was only eight when two unrelated life events made a lasting impact on her: First, Uncle Mahmood gave her a kids’ chemistry kit, a gift that sparked her life-long love of science. Shortly thereafter,11-year-old Najmieh, a village girl from northern Iran, moved in as household help. Their friendship deeply shaped Tabazadeh’s life-long awareness of class and gender differences, and as the author details a fairly affluent girlhood, she adds pithy observations (“we were born in a place where women just don’t get what … [Read more...]

The Sky Detective – First Chapter

April 11, 2015 By 60 Comments
The Sky Detective - First Chapter

The Science Prize San Francisco, December 2001 My stomach knots as I glance at an audience of more than seven thousand people gathered in the grand ballroom at the Marriott in San Francisco. This year, I’ve been selected by the American Geophysical Union to receive a prestigious science medal. Thank God I’m not alone up here on the stage. Men in dark suits or tuxedoes are seated to my left and right, waiting for their turns to speak. The notes for my speech are crumpled inside a vintage beaded gold purse I purchased at an antique shop last week to match a navy-blue-and-gold St. John suit that I had bought earlier for this occasion. My husband will likely raise an eyebrow when he sees our credit card bill next month, but for now, he appears cheerful, chatting with my parents in the front row—Baba in a dark tailored suit and Mamman … [Read more...]

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