The coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. We meet nine-year-old Marjane when the fundamentalists
first take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. The story then
follows her as she cleverly outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA
and Iron Maiden, while living with the terror of government persecution and the Iran/Iraq
war. Then Marjane's journey moves on to Austria where, as a teenager, her parents send
her to school in fear for her safety and, she has to combat being equated with the
religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Marjane
eventually gains acceptance in Europe, but finds herself alone and horribly homesick, and
returns to Iran to be with her family, though it means putting on the veil and living in a
tyrannical society. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries,
continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age twenty-four, she
realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the
heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future,
shaped indelibly by her past.
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