A review by lindseysparks
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur

4.0

I liked this, but don't really feel like I understood it fully. It's an Iranian novel about five women coming in to their own and realizing a life that isn't defined by men. At the same time, it doesn't bash all men and there is one man in particular who is quite wonderful. There was quite a bit of magical realism, which I don't usually like. It didn't bother me here so much but at the same time I felt like I wasn't quite getting the point.