Turn Left

For readers of Martyr! and The World I See, Turn Left is a groundbreaking memoir that maps author Illah Nourbakhsh's journey from the Iranian Revolution to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, revealing how true belonging is found not in a single culture but in the spaces between them.For fifty years, Illah Nourbakhsh has wrestled with one relentless question: "Where do I belong?" As an Iranian-born immigrant who rejected the neat labels of "bicultural" or "Iranian-American," he discovered that his true home wasn't in one world, but in the powerful, often chaotic space between them. From the Iranian Revolution to NASA's Mars landings, from the dot-com boom to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, Nourbakhsh has always been an observer of conflict and a pioneer of innovation. Turn Left is the electrifying memoir of a man who built robots for space while searching for his place on Earth, proving that our most authentic identity is forged not in belonging, but in bridging.