Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781586481933 (1586481932)
Publish date: March 1st 2005
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Religion,
Biography Memoir,
Islam,
Iran
I love to travel, but I hate airplanes and fear "traveler's diarrhea." I also am risk-averse, and know that, realistically, I will probably never work up the guts to travel to the more politically dangerous areas of the world even if I could scrounge up the money and vacation time to do so. It's bec...
Eh. The subject matter was somewhat interesting, and the prose is competent (but not sparkling), but I found the author too detached from her own life story to make this the compelling read it should have been. I suspect she wanted to write it as a work of pure journalism, but some bean counter said...
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