something everyone should read
Jul. 28th, 2006 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyThe other day, I finished Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni.
As I wrote in a previous post, I thought that this would be a neat book for me to read, because I really liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Iran has been in the news a fair amount recently. Wow. I was right, but it went far beyond that.
This is the book that Reading Lolita in Tehran wanted to be. An honest, funny look at being young and female in Iran right now. Moaveni talks about the inefficiency of a regime that intimidates its foreign journalists. She talks about the Westernization of Islamic culture. She talks about what it's really like to date as a young Iranian today. She tells us what it's like to be from Iran and America simultaneously. (I think mixed-race folks would find a lot to relate to in this book, despite the fact that both of Moaveni's parents are Iranian.) Her struggles to be a "good Iranian" without compromising herself are poignant. Her struggles with her family are moving without being cliched.
I LOVED this book and you should all read it. Five stars for book 90.
As I wrote in a previous post, I thought that this would be a neat book for me to read, because I really liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Iran has been in the news a fair amount recently. Wow. I was right, but it went far beyond that.
This is the book that Reading Lolita in Tehran wanted to be. An honest, funny look at being young and female in Iran right now. Moaveni talks about the inefficiency of a regime that intimidates its foreign journalists. She talks about the Westernization of Islamic culture. She talks about what it's really like to date as a young Iranian today. She tells us what it's like to be from Iran and America simultaneously. (I think mixed-race folks would find a lot to relate to in this book, despite the fact that both of Moaveni's parents are Iranian.) Her struggles to be a "good Iranian" without compromising herself are poignant. Her struggles with her family are moving without being cliched.
I LOVED this book and you should all read it. Five stars for book 90.