![]() ![]() “Put your ear to the ground like me and listen,” Shadi says. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the youth claim the city as their own. In some quarters, it’s easier to score a hit than to get a decent meal. ![]() The image of the highly educated, unemployed youth who indulges in bodily vice has curdled into cliché in writing about contemporary Iran, where opium use per capita is higher than anywhere on earth. The people she encounters along the way reflect a gallery of misfits as dejected as she is, a generation squeezed between the broken promises of a revolution and the airlessness and nihilism of contemporary life. Mass disaffection and disillusionment provide the emotional weather for Shadi’s zigzag day in search of a fix.
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