The negative reviews of this book are odd to me because the writing is very clear and interesting. I also think the literary analysis going on here transcends what I consider to be “book club” discourse, because these are students and a qualified professor really thinking through the difficult questions raised by texts. The story in this memoir is about a college literature in Tehran meeting with a group of young women to discuss controversial, banned, and restricted books. But these are anti-Islam or anti-Iran […]