“I wished it was a joke. An exception. Something. But oh so unfortunately, there were a lot of somethings. Turns out there were many people who wanted to engage in bone worship, and not the cross cultural, Iranian-American, funny-poignant, coming-of-age variety.”
Elizabeth Eslami, author of the literary novel Bone Worship, discusses having an inadvertently titillating title.
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