I know this book was a hugely popular best-seller, but once I started reading it and talking about it with people, it seemed like EVERYONE hated it. I only found one person who really liked it. Most of the people I spoke with never even finished it.

Me? I forced my way through it. It was just so dry. I found the stories of women's lives in Iran during the revolution fascinating, but the book doesn't focus on that as much as I would have liked. I was also disappointed that some of the books 'read' in Tehran weren't read by her small, private, in-home class of women, but by her students at the University. In the end, I really only wanted to know what happened to the students in her private class. I worried for their safety - what if they were caught? Would they be punished?

The rest of the book I could have done without.