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Review title: An arduous, uphill struggle
Product review: The title refers to my attempts to get involved with this book, rather than the author's attempts to get on with her life in Tehran. This book was chosen by our book club and I started it with enthusiasm, wanting to learn more about that period of Iran's history. I found the book extraordinarily tedious to read, and failed to connect with any of the characters or the author herself. At times I felt as if I was reading a chunk of text lifted directly from an undergraduate's essay on whichever book the group was discussing at the time: this interrupted the narrative and ultimately became extremely irritating. A pity, because I feel the story of intelligent, educated women in Iran should be told and the premise of the book seemed to be the ideal way in which to tell it.
