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IRANIAN CHILDHOOD Nahid Rachlin reads from her memoir “Persian Girls” (Tarcher), which describes how she was raised by her aunt only to be removed back to her birth family. Tonight, 7 p.m., Borders Bookstore, 461 Park Ave. at 57th Street, 212-980-6785, free.
SPIRITUAL MOVEMENT Monique El-Faizy reads from her essay “God and Country: How Evangelicals Have Become America’s New Mainstream” (Bloomsbury). Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-132, free.
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE? Andrew Sullivan reads from his essay “The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back” (HarperCollins), which explores how current affairs, such as the Iraq War, are affecting the conservative movement in America. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE A historian at the University of California-Berkeley, Jason Sokol, reads from his essay “There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945–1975” (Knopf). Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 267 Seventh Ave. at 6th Street, 718-832-9066, free.