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July Book Club Review - The Lion Women of Tehran




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Title: The Lion Women of Tehran

Author: Marjan Kamali

Publisher: Gallery Books

Genre: Historical Fiction




ā€œSomeday, you and meā€”weā€™ll do great things. Weā€™ll live life for ourselves. And we will help others. We are cubs now, maybe. But we will grow to be lionesses. Strong women who make things happen.ā€


Friendship, betrayal and redemption set against the backdrop of three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. Whether you read author Marjan Kamaliā€™s signature prose via print or in the audio format like I did thanks to @simon.audio @libro.fm you are going to devour this emotional book! Itā€™s narrated by Mozhan Navabi and Nikki Massoud who both did an exceptional job.



The Lion Women of Tehran is a coming of age story of two friends, who meet when theyā€™re seven, through the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It takes us along an emotional and unbreakable bond of these girls despite coming from different backgrounds. It weaves together a world of political turmoil and the 1953 Coup deā€™tat of Iran. I love learning through historical fiction. I love stories that feel so immersive, vivid and real. The author makes you feel like you fell inside the pages, activating all your senses; especially with all the food descriptions.



šŸ¦Vivid Storytelling

šŸ¦Lush Prose

šŸ¦Dual POV

šŸ¦Friendship

šŸ¦Coming-of-Age

šŸ¦Iranian Culture + History

šŸ¦Womenā€™s Rights

šŸ¦You read with your mind, heart & stomach



The Stationery Shop is on my favorites shelf and it looks like I have another by this author to add! Itā€™s definitely on my top books from 2024, so far. I love a good epilogue and this one is especially brilliant. All the stars!!!



@bookfriendsbookclub had a great zoom last weekend with the author. She hopes her readers walk away knowing ā€œLove outlasts lossā€ and ā€œHistory books tell you what happened and fiction books tell you how people feltā€.

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