Book Group – April 26, 2:30PM

On April 26 at 2:30 we will discuss The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali. 
 
A powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism set against three transformative decades in Iran.
In 1950s Tehran, seven-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, where she meets Homa, a passionate girl with an irrepressible spirit. Together, the girls play games and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.” But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother return to their previous bourgeois life. Years later, Homa’s sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives, and as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.
 A sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transform our lives.
 
Save the date: On May 31 we will discuss An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age by Shane Abé.