Lipstick Jihad
by Azadeh Moaveni
Iranian American, going back to find out what that is.
you've grown up between two cultures and feel like an outsider in both
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Moaveni's earlier memoir — growing up in California in an Iranian diaspora community, shaped by a revolution she was too young to remember, and then moving to Tehran in her twenties as a journalist. What she finds is a Iran full of young people living double lives — pious in public, defiant in private — who recognize her hybrid identity immediately. The dispatch from inside the experience of being from somewhere you've mostly only inherited.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Iran • Middle East
- Voice
- A Iran voice — written from the inside
- Themes
- Authoritarian PlaybookWitness
