Questions About Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran

by Azadeh Moaveni (Goodreads Author)

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Lisa Found it disappointing. It comes up often in discussion, but I found it to be a very limited book, too focussed on one young woman's ambivalence about…moreFound it disappointing. It comes up often in discussion, but I found it to be a very limited book, too focussed on one young woman's ambivalence about her cultural heritage and relationship to the U.S. when she had the potential for a much more penetrating discussion of ethnicity, identity, etc. (less)

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