The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Fiction
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (ISBN: 9781398534759, paperback) is an epic of friendship and betrayal, upheaval and dreams. Forced to leave Tehran, seven-year old Ellie meets the irrepressible Homa on her first day at her new school. They become firm friends until life takes Ellie back to Tehran and her memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later Homa enters Ellie’s privileged world, changing the course of both their lives.