canarynoir 's review for:

Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran

4.0

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A lovely, unusual story of strangers in a strange land. Three sisters who fled Iran barely ahead of the revolution at the end of the 1970s end up in a small town in Ireland in the mid-80s where they hope to start a new life on their own terms at last. The unexpected Persian/Irish mixture really works. The characters are vivid and interesting and even the villains have sympathetic aspects.