The book focuses on the roles of Iranian women in their families, as daughters and as wives. The discussions start with a news about the death of Marjane's grandmother's friend, and soon veers off into a hilarious discussion of sex and the many experiences of the women with their husbands. I couldn't put it down, it was hilarious, and moving!Įmbroideries captures the discussions between 9 women one evening at tea, including Marjane, her mother and grandmother. I picked the book to read yesterday, and finished it in a half hour. I was introduced to Embroideries when I joined the Women Unbound Challenge. I read them more than a year ago, and never knew she had written more memoirs.
If you have not read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis 1 and Persepolis 2, you need to run (not walk) and grab those books to read. Once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure toīring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhere-and to Man, keep a man or, most important, keep up appearances.įull of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of someįascinating women, whose life stories and lovers will strike us as at By turns revealing and hilarious, theseĪre stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a Marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how toĭelight in being a mistress. Other things, how to fake one’s virginity, how to escape an arranged Secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among Subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.Īs the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their Neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and Challenges: 100+ Reading Challenge, A to Z Challenge, Support your Local Library Reading Challenge, Women Unbound Challenge, POC Reading Challengeįrom the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriouslyĮntertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women.Įmbroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother,
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