Historical Fiction Book Club
Thu, Nov 21
|Birch Tree Books
Join us for the discussion of The Lion Women of Tehran by Marian Kamali with your host Hope.
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birch Tree Books , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy The Lion Women of Tehran from Bookshop.org
From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
In 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.
Luckily, 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."
But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her…