In her bestselling memoir 'Reading Lolita in Tehran', Azar Nafisi opened her world to us, offering a vibrant portrait of women's lives in Iran. In this text, Nafisi returns to Iran and her childhood to deliver a moving portrait of a family's life, a life lived in thrall to Nafisi's powerful mother.

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, the author and other women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. This book tells how they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, and share their own stories, dreams with each other, and, for a few hours, taste freedom.