The Lion Women of Tehran (Marjan Kamali)

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Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation.n Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind 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 of becoming “lion women.” An “evocative read and a forceful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran—from nationally noted author Marjan Kamali.n 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.

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