Kindred Book Club: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

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Sat Jan 25 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

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Kindred Thoughts Bookstore | Bridgeport, CT

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Kindred Book Club reads The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - Lauren's Pick!

Join the members of the Kindred Book Club for the next book discussion, The Lion Women of Tehran.

The Kindred Book Club is a member led book club where the members come together to select the book for the bi-monthly discussions. Growing with each meeting, we are a lively diverse bunch with a common love for books and book discussions. Join us at 5pm for a happy hour discussion to meet and greet or catch up from the last meeting and then delve into the details of the book!

About The Lion Women of Tehran:

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 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.

Together, 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.

Written with Marjan Kamali's signature "evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful" (Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light) prose, The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transforms our lives.

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