Kaytee Cobb

So I grabbed it, finally decided to dip my toes in.

Here we bounce from right at the beginning, present day USA to a continuous narrative.

So this is not dual timeline.

We just start in the present day and then jump backwards to

to 1950s Iran, where we meet Ellie and her best friend Homa.

Ellie's fortunes have recently changed.

She was kind of a bourgeoisie, upper middle class young girl, and then her father unexpectedly passes away.

Fortunes change, she and her mother become kind of hand to mouth.

Thankfully, on her first day at her new school, she meets Homa.

And that friendship and the way these two young girls going into young adult women and then adult women love and support each other changes the course of their lives.

We know from the beginning, though, that they have not spoken in many years.

And Homa has just recently reached out and broken that silence.

And then we jump back.

So the whole time you're wondering...

What happened with Ellie and Homa?

Because this friendship seems everything, right?

This book is centered on that female friendship and that coming of age story.

But it also includes a really fantastic historical context for the Iranian revolution.

It gives a lot of texture and commentary to what we see now in current events.

which is why I picked it up when I did.