Roya is a dreamy eyed teenager whose liberal minded parents encourage both their daughters to pursue higher education to become icons in their own right. Political activism ran amok in the city, patronized by many sympathizers who were only too willing to lend a helping hand. The supporters of the Shah were against letting democracy reign in Iran and so it seemed were some of the foreign powers whose vested interests lay in the oil reserves of the country. The tale is set against the backdrop of the political coup that erupted in Tehran in 1953. She has written two books and both have been awarded with several accolades. Marjan Kamali is an Iranian-American writer who seems to have traveled the world from Turkey to Kenya, Germany, Iran and finally to the United States. Title: The Stationery Shop Genre: Fiction Publisher: Gallery Books Author: Marjan Kamali I would love to hear about your views on the book and my review, if you have read this book too. So when I saw it on one of my book apps, I decided to give it a read. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali had been trending on my time line for quite some time. “Why doesn’t his heart let go? Why do some people stay lodged in our souls, stuck in our throats, imprinted in our minds?”
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