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mystyrose's review against another edition
emotional
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informative
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
4.0
scottishlindsay's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
3.0
dani_thebookdragon's review against another edition
challenging
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informative
inspiring
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
3.0
bnicole424's review against another edition
2.0
I got this book as Amazon’s First Read book to learn more about Iran. While I did learn a lot, it was hard to keep up with because of the timelines and different countries & names. It finally picked up about 60% through when the author escaped Iran with her family. I’m not an author, but I wish she sprinkled her journal entries throughout the memoir instead of at the end. I started skimming because I just wanted to finish it.
librosylagrimas's review against another edition
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4.5
amé la compasión que Neda le ofrece a sus padres en la conclusión del libro. en especial porque conozco de personas que recientes mucho a sus padres por haber permitido e incluso participado en la revolución. Neda explica como si bien no está de acuerdo con lo que hicieron sus padres, entiende que ninguno de ellos tenía la posibilidad de ver el futuro y estaban limitados a soñar con un país mejor, sin saber como iban a terminar las cosas.
cdale8's review against another edition
4.0
I've been on a mid-century-history-of-Iran kick recently, and was excited to run across this title in a new book alert. It was a perfect bridge from the political to the personal, and more so because of the connections I have to the US locations that are part of the story. A 3.5, rounded up, and in all transparency I didn't finish the diary entries/letters in Part 4, which rambled on and may not have come across to the general reader as the author was intending (anyone with a modicum of empathy can imagine the heartwrench that is handed down through generations after the inhumanity meted out by both monarchal autocracy and militant theocracy, so trying to place a 12 year old's written feelings was less of a smooth read than the rest of the text), instead flipping through to the epilogues as a more fulfilling conclusion. As an unfolding of the events, however, the author did a superb job placing them and showing the human face of the tumult of that time.
paubre's review against another edition
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4.0
and_britt's review against another edition
4.0
A good read intermixing past and present with the challenges that both the writer and her family had to overcome. This book put a lot of insight into what was going on in Iran, the countries nearby and the United States. At times, I had to lookup words and phrases to better understand the author’s perspective, but it didn’t deter from the story, it enhanced my experience as the reader.