False Prophet
$29.75
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
The cult drama of The Girls meets Yellowface’s searing exploration of lies, immigration, and identity in this propulsive literary thriller debut.
A grieving actor-turned-memoirist reimagines his mother’s encounter with Jonestown’s Jim Jones—except it’s mostly all lies …
Actor Jal Persad is enjoying moderate success when the death of his mother, Rita, sends him into a tailspin. After all, how could he grieve a woman he barely knew? Rita had grown up in Guyana …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781685892418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1685892418 |
| Author: | Afsheen Farhadi |
| Publisher: | Melville House Publishing |
| Imprint: | Melville House Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
“With a wickedly compelling premise and a clever structure, False Prophet escalates suspensefully toward a final climactic choice. Afsheen Farhadi’s debut is a smart and very entertaining exploration of fame, faith, family, and the lies that we are desperate to believe.” — Chris Bachelder, author of The Throwback Special
About The Author
Afsheen Farhadi
Afsheen Farhadi was born in Phoenix, Arizona. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, Catapult, and Bright Lights Film Journal, among other publications. He served as the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, Prose at Southern Methodist University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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