The Loom

By Reza Bahrami

Some patterns, you weave. And some patterns weave you.

Sepehr Sepehri can close a hole in a carpet so that no one can find where it was.

It is the only thing he has ever been truly good at, and in three decades in Milwaukee it has not once made him rich. He has a failing shop, a tired wife, a son of sixteen who has started going by an American name, and a country on the evening news that used to be his.

Then he mends a tear in an old Kerman - and outside the shop, quietly, the world rearranges itself to match.

The loom does not ask what a man wants. It asks what he will pay. And the price is never money. Every thread he pulls takes something out of him he did not know he was still holding: a Sunday afternoon. A laugh in a kitchen. The sound of his son saying his name.

So he goes back. Not a year. Not a decade. All the way to Tehran in the autumn of 1978 - far enough to mend everything at once.

And it works.

In the world he weaves, Persia is an empire and America is a protectorate. Sepehr is not a small man in a small shop. He has everything he ever wanted, and half a century to keep it.

He is missing one thing. It takes him the whole of that half-century to understand what.

Told across fifty years and two versions of the world, THE LOOM is a novel about the cost of undoing history - and about a father who learns, one thread at a time, that some things can only be kept by leaving them broken.

For readers of Exit West, The Kite Runner, and Martyr

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBMKFXCB
• ISBN13: 9798188694852
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"