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Esra Tasdelen
Jun 11, 2012 rated it liked it


This book is turning out to be a big disappointment for me...the writing style fails to capture the reader, and I cannot empathize with the women characters because there's almost no character development whatsoever. I cannot help but compare this book to Persepolis in which Marjane Satrapi does an excellent job portraying life in Iran during the revolution, and this book is nowhere near as powerful as that one. I believe this book is way overrated and doesn't really deserve all the hype. I do
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