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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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June 1, 2014
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June 30, 2014
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Group Read Archive 2014-16
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Non-Fiction Group Read - June 2014

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Faye
Jun 23, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: biography-memoir
(I'm giving this 4.5 stars, the only tiny deduction being for the lack of quotation marks during some conversations, making it very difficult to follow who was saying what.)

This book touched my heart in ways I wasn't expecting. I was constantly putting myself in these women's place - regular young women who loved to read, suddenly finding themselves in an ultra-Islamic society that didn't allow them to read what they wanted to read, go where they wanted to go, wear what they wanted to wear, bein
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