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I started the book with high expectations that it would provide a unique lens of young women (and the author) growing up in a time of violence and extremism. Unfortunately, it really failed to deliver. There are some moments that detail the political and societal changes in a really unique way, but they are lost among the pages and pages of the author drawing every possible connection between the literature her students are studying and the Republic of Iran.
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I really struggled to get into this book. We are very briefly introduced to "her girls" at the beginning, and I spent the entire first section of the book trying to tell them apart, to remember who had the strict brother and who was a poet, until I realized that that wasn't the point. I also found her pontificating about Lolita to be lengthy and overwrought; she overanalyzes the connections between Humbert and his control over Lolita and the political situation in Iran.
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An enlightening look into daily life in Iran during the revolution.
Aug 30, 2012
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