Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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Summary: Breathtaking Testimony to the Transformative Power of Books
Review: When I worked for the 1970s for Author Jamake Highwater we often spoke about his thesis outlined in THE PRIMAL MIND, that the biggest thing separating people is not distance, but culture. READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN brilliantly proves Highwater's point and its corollary simultaneously. Like Jazz Composer and Saxophonist Oliver Lake wrote, "We Are the Same, But We Are Different." Azar Nafisi's courageous work reminds us that we have more in common with each other than we think. This passionately drawn portrait of women reading together in secret books from a culture alien, distant, and politically in opposition to the one in which they live, evokes laughter and tears in recognition of how no matter how different our cultures are, we all share the human hunger for knowledge, equality, freedom and justice.