Charlene (ATraveler) - , reviewed on 5/19/2009 + 193 more book reviews

This short book is done in the graphic novel style (comic book) from the perspective of a young girl living in Iran. It covers the years just before and after the fall of the Shah. Her family was western and fairly secular. While the change in her society was sudden and never communicated clearly, especially to children. In her foreward she explains "I believe the entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. I also don't want those Iranians who lost their lives in prison defending freedome, who died in the war against Iraq, who suffered under various repressive regimes, or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten."

This book will not take long to read and provides another point of view.

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