A review by cencula
Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi

3.0

This book was good but certainly not great. Her views of Iran during the revolution and especially the intimate scenes with her family really hit a strong note. However, there seemed to be too much political discussion for my limited knowledge of Middle Eastern Affairs and so I often found myself lost and waiting for her mother or father to appear. Nafisi's account of her parents' lives and her interaction with them was charming and the later parts of the book only got better as she focused more on her family and less on the revolution.
The portrait of her family is so honest that it seems at times almost too revealing and yet it's not. The view of the revolution through the lense of her family is what kept me turning the pages and almost makes me want to give this book another star.