{"product_id":"the-lion-women-of-tehran","title":"The Lion Women of Tehran","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1950s Tehran, a lonely girl who has lost her father and her comfortable home meets a best friend at school. Marjan Kamali's novel follows the two through three decades of upheaval in Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA New York Times bestseller, according to the publisher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical fiction set in Tehran from the 1950s through three decades of political change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubjects include female friendship, social class, betrayal and women's activism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReviewed in Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly (in the hardcover edition)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback, 352 pages, Gallery Books, 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEllie is seven when her father's death moves her and her mother from wealth to a small home downtown. At school she meets Homa, and the girls fill their days with games, cooking in Homa's family kitchen and wandering the Grand Bazaar, sharing a hope of growing up to be \"lion women.\" When Ellie's family regains its old standing, the friendship fades, until Homa reappears in Ellie's new life. As unrest builds in Iran, one betrayal carries serious consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis paperback follows the hardcover edition. Readers of historical fiction set in Iran, of novels about friendship between women, and book clubs looking for a story that spans decades will find all three here. The friendship starts over games in a kitchen and plays out against a country's turmoil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarjan Kamali was born in Turkey to Iranian parents. She is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Stationery Shop\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTogether Tea\u003c\/em\u003e, received a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award, and has seen her books translated into more than thirty languages, according to her publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854468759701,"sku":"NEW-ING-PB-1668036592","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_d5202b5c-9e5f-46af-9afc-1f9d99583fcb.jpg?v=1787902363","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/the-lion-women-of-tehran","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}