This is a good book but wasn't what I expected or look for when I read these types of books. This book delves into literature and life in Tehran equally. A little too much literature analysis included for me. Even though it doesn't matter to the book that I read some of the works she referred to, I kept feeling bored or like I couldn't relate when she discussed books I hadn't read. I would have liked the focus to be more on living and teaching forbidden material in Tehran than share the focus with the literature. Literature bluffs might like this a little more!