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

3.0

It took me two months to read this book and I think I only finally forced myself to finish it because I was on my last available renewal at the library. I really liked [b:Reading Lolita in Tehran|7603|Reading Lolita in Tehran|Azar Nafisi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165637149s/7603.jpg|903067], and Nafisi is a good writer, but somehow I just never really got drawn into her memoirs. She had an interesting family and lived through some very interesting times in Iran, but this book is definitely about her parents much more than it's about Nafisi or Iran - and maybe it's because her parents were so difficult for her to get to know that I never felt like I really knew them either. In the end I think this book was probably a very cathartic and necessary thing for Nafisi, but it didn't do much for me.