Book: The Lion Women of Tehran
Author: Marjan Kamali
Pages: 336
This is my 171st read for the year
What Amazon says:
In 1950s Teran, 7 year old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate gil with a brave and irrepressible spriti. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa's warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming "lion women". But their happienss is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls' high school in Iran, Ellie's memoris of Homa beging to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reapperance in Ellie's privledged world alters the cours of both of their lives. Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the politicl turmoil in Ira builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.
This was a great book. It covers the life of these two women from the 1950s through 2022. It unfolds nicely as they take different paths, come back together, take different paths again, etc. They keep finding each other even though their lives are very different. It isn't a long book, and I did keep turning the pages wanting to see where it would go, what the ending would be like. I love "long lives" of characters in books to see what becomes of them. Good epilogues and sagas are top notch in my book. This is well written and has great character development. You like just about every character in the book (there are some bad guys of course) and it makes you want to follow their life. Check this one out.
Stars: 4.5
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