Karen F. (lovelylibrarian) - , reviewed on 11/25/2008 + 9 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This book gave me a glimpse into a world that I didn't know existed. In this memoir, the author allows the reader to feel what it is like to live as a woman and a Jew in Iran during the time of her childhood. Women were married very young, not allowed to make their own decisons and lived in the same house with their extended families.

The family relationships were also very interesting, both between the men and women and the women themselves. The author loves her family very much but is also trying to be her own person and live the life she wants. This causes a lot of conflict, both internally for her and in the relationships with her family.

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