Helpful Score: 1
When I finished this book I read over the reviews here on LT. I'm glad I am not the only one who found the writing less than wonderful. Too often the narration shifted mid-paragraph from one character to another. Too often a paragraph needed to be reread to be sure which "she" was in play. It wasn't the cultural differences of either English vs American usage, or the unfamiliarity of the Iranian. Usually it was just poorly written (and/or edited).
As well as another reviewer, by the end of the story I had come round again to finding the mother as unsympathetic a character as she was in the beginning, following the opening shocking events (despite the atrocities inflicted upon her by her father and other males of her country revealed through the course of the story), having used the husband and finally cast him aside no less callously as she had been cast aside as a young girl.
The most unbelievable part of the story, however -- beyond even the daughter becoming pregnant again -- is the imagined interaction of Maryam with the father who, for the sake of his own pride, threw her out of her home, to his wolfish soldiers, and out of her country. "I'm sorry it's taken so long, and if you've been sad and alone," she imagines him saying to her.
Yeah. Right.
As well as another reviewer, by the end of the story I had come round again to finding the mother as unsympathetic a character as she was in the beginning, following the opening shocking events (despite the atrocities inflicted upon her by her father and other males of her country revealed through the course of the story), having used the husband and finally cast him aside no less callously as she had been cast aside as a young girl.
The most unbelievable part of the story, however -- beyond even the daughter becoming pregnant again -- is the imagined interaction of Maryam with the father who, for the sake of his own pride, threw her out of her home, to his wolfish soldiers, and out of her country. "I'm sorry it's taken so long, and if you've been sad and alone," she imagines him saying to her.
Yeah. Right.
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