serene’s posterous

I liked this memoir by Azadeh Moaveni about her two years in Iran.  She was reporting for Time magazine, fell in love, got pregnant, then got married and had a baby in those two years.  The book gave some insight on the lives of the regular Iranian people and their Persian culture.  It seems that the author, as she grew up in California, had a generally idealistic view of her faith and Iran, but her extended time in Iran perhaps made her less idealistic.  I must be hard to straddle between the two cultures, her Western upbringing and the Persian and Muslim traditions.  I think this memoir at least gives us an idea about the psyche of the Iranian people.