Sepideh Zamani’s first collection of short stories, Barbuda, was published in Persian in 2016. Her novel Ouroboros was published in 2018. Sleeping in a Dark Cave and Women Looking at the Sky are forthcoming in 2019. Born in Iran in 1973, Zamani graduated from law school in 1999 and moved to the United States a year later.
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Banned from entering soccer stadiums since Iran’s 1979 revolution, the young women in this story hatch a risky plan to get inside the stadium on game day. ...