A review by emmamgregory
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri

3.0

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is set in Iran post reveloution and I felt the writer an Iranian immigrant wanted to cram into her novel everything that is wrong with Iran now; sexism, racism, homophobia, women having no rights, poverty etc, as if the reader was totally ignorant of what happens in the Middle East. Having said that I enjoyed Dina Nayeri's writing style and once the scene had been set and the characters formed I raced through the remainder of the book.