The old textbooks with the photograph of the Shah on the first page were replaced with brand-new textbooks with a photo of the new leader inside. The drawings in their old books of girls feeding roosters and going to the market were almost exactly the same, except headscarves and roopoosh had been added to the girls’ pictures. In the new books, the Persian kings were no longer dynamic and amazing. They were corrupt and cruel. Mina had to relearn the “facts.” She saw that the definitions of things like “history,” “good,” and “bad” shifted depending on who was in power. Mina realized that
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