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South Harbors Secrets
South Harbors Secrets
South Harbors Secrets
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South Harbors Secrets, A Journey From The Caspian Sea To Panbeh City In Mississippi

In 1950s, tiny Neek was living in a small, serene, but poor village by the Caspian Sea. He was blessed to have the love and blessing of his four angels: mom, grandma, and two aunties. He loved stories more than anything else. The unique and intact landscape of the North fueled his imagination and nurtured his eager for discoveries and adventures. His imagination took off when he read, for the very first time, the novels about the life and adventures of Oliver Twist, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn. He could recite their stories by heart.

He was unaware that the ups and downs of his life could qualify as true adventures in their own right. He moved from his small village to the capital city of Tehran. He beat the odds and graduated from the medical school. He then moved to the United States and became a cancer specialist. He finally settled down in Panbeh City in the state of Mississippi. He pioneered a quiz show that offered tens of college scholarships to the talented but disadvantaged African-American students in this part of the South.  

Quite accidentally, he was entangled with the family of Darius, the first champion of the game show. The scholarship was instrumental for Darius to become a prominent lawyer in Washington, D.C. and Virginia. It turned out that Darius's family harbored deep and painful secrets from the past. The way those secrets unraveled were quite traumatic, taunting, agonizing, and deadly.

Meanwhile, two mothers, worlds apart, had an uncanny resemblance in their struggles and sacrifices to make a better future for their son. The parallel life of Soraya and South is a testimony that human spirit transcends all the artificial barriers like race, nationality, and religion.   

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAli Langroodi
Release dateApr 19, 2019
ISBN9781386881551
South Harbors Secrets
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Ali Langroodi

I was born in the northern part of Iran. My parents were native to the Caspian Sea region, also known as the North. My family decided to move to the capital city of Tehran when I was an infant. I completed my schooling in Tehran, which included a college degree. My mother and I frequently visited my grandma, who lived all her life by the Caspian Sea, in the beautiful province of Mazandaran. She created wonderful and sweet memories for me. Even to this day, the colorful scenery of the North is my inspiration for my art works and writings. After moving to the United States, I completed my graduate studies in the field of biological sciences. But later I developed an interest in studying human personality and behavior. Thus I pursued a career as a psychiatrist which continued until my retirement. I became fond of arts and crafts, painting, drawings, and writing lyrics in my adult life. I created a five-book series titled: Ali Baba’s Book Series on Artistic Flags (please see the complete list of the books in the series at the back of this book). I also released five single song tracks under my artistic name, Caspean. The following singles became the favorites among my friends: She Got Too Much and Live It, Live It. During writing a laboratory exercise compendium for a molecular biotechnology book, I realized that the fictional cases that I created were entertaining to some of my friends, aside from their scientific contents. Thus I decided to write my first fictional book, South Harbors Secrets. Both in the Ali Baba’s book series and this novel, my goal has been to highlight, embrace, respect, and celebrate the diversity that exist among various cultural groups. I think that despite all the differences, we have a great deal of similarities that could bond us together. My true belief is that, collectively, the human spirit has a tendency to reach for a greater cause and a common goal to make life more meaningful and fulfilling for all. My mission in life has become to use arts, paintings, and writings as a tool to convey these messages.     

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