Reading Refuge Book Club: The Lion Women of Tehran

We are thrilled to welcome Marjan Kamali to talk about her book, The Lion Women of Tehran, a heartfelt, epic novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

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The book is a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. 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. Here Ellie meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook, wander through 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. Years later, Homa’s 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.