We heard the heavens then

Raised in a sheltered world, Aria Minu-Sepehr was the son of a major general in the Shah of Iran's Imperial Iranian Air Force. When the Shah was overthrown and Ayatollah Khomeini rose to power in 1979, Aria's idyllic life skidded to a halt. Pictures of executed family friends covered the newspapers and ten-year-old Aria was thrust into the terrorized world of adults. His memoir takes his readers into the heart of the revolution.