{"product_id":"gn54v68lybso","title":"The Lion Women of Tehran [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSadeqa Johnson, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe House of Eve\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Heartbreaking and life affirming' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdrienne Brodeur, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLittle Monsters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethis novel has everything'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary Beth Keane, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAsk Again, Yes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Stationery Shop of Tehran\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. 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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut their happiness 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 memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for Marjan Kamali\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful… This book broke my heart again and again’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhitney Scharer, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Age of Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A beautifully immersive tale … brings to life a lost and complex world and the captivating characters who once called it home’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJasmin Darznik, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good Daughter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSong of a Captive Bird\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘What a pleasure – a novel that is all at once masterfully plotted, beautifully written, and populated by characters who are arresting, lovable and so real’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eElinor Lipman, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTurpentine Lane\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A sweeping romantic tale of thwarted love’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An enchanting romance’  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I! 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