02416cam a2200385 i 4500 1528988256 TxAuBib 20240829120000.0 240626s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781668036587 hardcover $28.99 1668036584 hardcover $28.99 (OCoLC)1442248596 TxAuBib rda Kamali, Marjan, author. The lion women of Tehran [Book] / Marjan Kamali. First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2024. ©2024. 327 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Dust jacket. "In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa's warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming "lion women." But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls' high school in Iran, Ellie's memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie's privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences"--Dust jacket flap. 20240829. Women Iran Tehran Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Social classes Fiction. Betrayal Fiction. Tehran (Iran) Fiction. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Psychological fiction. RV8