First-time author Massoud Abbasi’s debut novel Seeker of Horizons may be fiction, but it pulls no punches in reflecting some of the horrors he and his family faced as they made their way from Iran to ...

Abbasi’s mindset came partly out of guilt over his father’s death. The Abbasis had fled Iran in 1987 after his father, journalist Ali Abbasi, spent a year being tortured in Evin Prison for his ...