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Together Tea

Marjan Kamali

Start date: April 4, 2016

Finish date: April 7, 2016

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A book with a protagonist who has your occupation...
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The first book you see in a bookstore
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Jul 20, 2013 Booktart rated it liked it

Shelves: middle-east

A great story. The history of Iran before, during, and post Revolution (in this book, immediately after and then years later, in 1996) is fascinating. As the author points out throughout the book, the media here often paints a one-sided picture of Iran due to its government and in doing so, ignores the people actually living there, many of whom have progressive beliefs but are completely silenced by the government. I was glad to get some insight into what daily life is like for Iranian citizens. ...more

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Nov 22, 2014 Megan rated it really liked it

Shelves: international-reads, tea-and-tomes-book-club-books, american-stories, contemporary, middle-east, feminist-themes, great-now-i-am-hungry-fiction, library-loans

Will rate/review closer to February's book club meeting

Split into three parts, the story centers around the relationship between a mother (Darya) and daughter (Mina) living in New York in the 1990s and how each of them have adopted to living in a country they were not born in. Each woman faces struggles as they navigate living in their adopted homeland -- the family fled Iran following the Revolution and fall of the Shah and end up in NYC in 1982. When the book begins, Darya is intent on finding ...more

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