From the best–selling
author of Persepolis comes a gloriously entertaining and enlightening
look into the sex lives of Iranian women.
“Bold,
bewitchingly humorous and politically astute.” —Elle
Embroideries
gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic
mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors
for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject
turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.
As
the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets,
their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other
things, how to fake one’s virginity, how to escape an arranged
marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to
delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these
are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a
man, keep a man or, most important, keep up appearances.
Full
of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some
fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers will strike us as at
once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure
to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhere—and
to teach us all a thing or two.