Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi: 2 books

Something To Live For recounts the drama that is unleashed when the lives of three college students and a fledgling gangster cross paths in New York and Paris. Solomon the photographer, Utica the intellectual, and Demo the criminal fall in love with Jesse. She becomes pregnant and refuses to reveal...

Villa Dolores is the moving story of the making of a painter. After Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi’s birth in Mexico his American mother and Iranian father moved to Mallorca. The author’s island childhood was idyllic yet also crossed with violence and death. He later survived the brutality of...