Marjan Kamali, THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN paperback release

Name: Marjan Kamali, THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN paperback release
Start: 2025-08-12T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 105 E Main St Ste 138, Woodstock, GA, United States, Georgia 30188

Schedule

Tue, 12 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

105 E Main St Ste 138, Woodstock, GA, United States, Georgia 30188 | Woodstock, GA

We are beyond thrilled to welcome award winning author, Marjan Kamali, on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at 6:30pm to help her launch the paperback release of her immediate best-seller, THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN. An “evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
This is a free event but a book purchase is always welcome. An RSVP is mandatory for this event so we know how many attendees to expect.
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THE IRON WOMEN OF TEHRAN
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 for a friend to alleviate her isolation.
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.”
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.
MARJAN KAMALI
Marjan Kamali is the award-winning author of The Lion Women of Tehran, an instant national bestseller, The Stationery Shop, a national and international bestseller, and Together Tea, a Massachusetts Book Award finalist.
Marjan’s novels are published in translation in more than 30 languages. She is a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.
Marjan holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from New York University. Her essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Literary Hub, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Born in Turkey to Iranian parents, Marjan spent her childhood in Turkey, Iran, Germany, Kenya, and the U.S. She lives in the Boston area with her family.