My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran

My Prison, My Home is the harrowing true story of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari’s arrest on false charges and subsequent incarceration in Evin Prison, the most notorious penitentiary in Ahmadinejad’s Iran. Esfandiari’s riveting, deeply personal, and illuminating first-person account of her ordeal is the inspiring tale of one woman’s triumph over interrogation, intimidation, and fear. Offering a shocking, close-up view inside the paranoid mindset of the repressive Ahmadinejad regime, My Prison, My Home sheds light on a high-stakes international incident that sparked protests from some of the world’s most influential public figures—including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright. 

1. The Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 1

2. An Iranian Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 17

3. A Career Interrupted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 34

4. The Interrogation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 52

5. "Things Will Get Worse" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 71

6. The Lull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 89

7. The Arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 122

8. Evin Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 155

9. The Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 185

10. Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 208

Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 219

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 227