Prisoner Of Tehran By Marina Nemat

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Prisoner Of Tehran by Marina Nemat is a great book that teaches strength, love, anger, courage and to never let your voice not be heard. It's a great book that challenges the reader to think deeper into Marinas words and really understand her struggle her pain her love and her courage, this book will send you on a rollercoaster of emotions. This book and the discussions we had on them were helpful, I got to see what my group members thought about the book and what they interpreted from Marinas words.

The book clubs we had were very well thought out. In our first book club we talked about the passaged we each found really important Iqra's first passage was “ There is an ancient persian proverb that says, “The sky is the same colour wherever

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