A review by ashesandhoney
The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi

5.0

I loved this book. It is technically about literary analysis which I did not care about in the slightest. I've never read any of the books she was analysing. Around the analysis though is this memoir meets meditation on fiction and nationality and education written in beautiful prose. I skimmed the bits where she analyses Huck Finn and reread the parts where she talks about her cousin or teaching in Iran or taking her citizenship oath. I kept screenshoting quotes. I want to buy a print copy (I got it as a library eBook) so I can mark it up because it's beautiful.