The FRONT:
Lipstick Jihad/ Azadeh Movaeni/ Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle Beast seller, Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the year
Looks like the girl is incognito talking on a cellphone with Arabic writing
The book will be about her not feeling like she fits in America from her Afgan heritage
will she ever feel comfortable in America? How much will her heritage effect her?
The BACK:
She was born in California into an Iranian community. She feels uncomfortable with her identity and college has a big effect with that. She moves to Tehran as a journalist. Living her she finds interesting results.This story is about her searching for her "home" country that may not exist.
This book sounds like it will be a struggle for the main character to find out who she is and to be comfortable with who she is as well.
The setting is in Palo Alto, California and Tehran. The main characters name is Azdeh Moaveni.
Inside the BOOK:
copyright 2005/ published 2006 by PublicAffairs
For her parents and Kaveh Golestan
Intro, the secret garden, homecoming, we don't need no revolution, my country is sick, election, I'm too sexy for my veil, love in a time of struggle, summer of the cockroah, not without my mimosa, acknowledgments, permissions.
no other books written
It's descriptive and in first person
Overall IMPRESSION:
This book will be about Azadeh struggeling with the American culture because she feels out of place. She will move to Tehran and learn that the culture there is so much more confusing and harder to fit in with. Will she move back to America? What makes her move to Tehran? What are her parents like, do they make it hard for her to fit in?
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