Marjan Kamali | The Lion Women of Tehran

Name: Marjan Kamali | The Lion Women of Tehran
Start: 2024-07-12T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-07-12T19:30:00-06:00
Location: 1511 South 1500 East,Salt Lake City,84105,US

Schedule

Fri Jul 12 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1511 South 1500 East,Salt Lake City,84105,US | Salt Lake City, UT

The nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali comes to TKE for a discussion and signing of her latest book, The Lion Women of Tehran!
The nationally bestselling author of The Stationery Shop, Marjan Kamali, comes to TKE for a discussion and signing of her latest book, The Lion Women of Tehran , a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. This in-person event is open to the public and will take place at the bookshop.
Registration is required for this free event. Reserve your spot on Eventbrite here.
Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of The Lion Women of Tehran to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of The Lion Women of Tehran may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King's English.
About the book:
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.