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Roxana Shirazi
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Born in Iran on the cusp of the 1979 revolution, Roxana Shirazi fled the country 10 years later for England, where she suffered as a shy, dislocated teen whose only loves were library books and rock and roll.

This split passion continued into adulthood: even as she pursued a life in academia, she spent wild nights backstage with London bands. Now she reveals, in explicit and raunchy detail, her decadent romps with washed-up rockers, and she inexplicably lashes the sordid tale to the country of her birth.

This is the groupie tell-all gone disastrously wrong.

What's the Big Deal?

Igniter Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, is marketing the memoir as "the rock and roll version of The Satanic Verses," and the New York Daily News quotes Shirazi as saying that several editors "passed on her manuscript for fear of a fatwa." What's so scandalous?

In addition to the expected drugs-and-sex debauchery, Last Living Slut makes a mockery of Shira