Adult Book Club

The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali

Please join us for one of our meetings of our Adult Book Club scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, at 1:30 pm and Friday, March 13 , at 1:30 pm. We will be discussing the book “The Lion Women of Tehran” by Marjan Kamali.

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation.

Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming “lion women.”

But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.

Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.

“Reminiscent of The Kite Runner and My Brilliant FriendThe Lion Women of Tehran is a mesmerizing tale” (BookPage) of love and courage, and a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young.

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library.

What: Adult Book Club

When/Where:   Tuesday, March 10 at 1:30 p.m. – East Troy Lions Public Library

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When/Where: Friday, March 13, at 1:30 p.m. – East Troy Lions Public Library

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East Troy Lions Public Library Adult Book Club Reading List 2026

January: Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip by Sara Brunsvold

February: House Rules by Jodi Picoult

March: Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

April: Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

May: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

June: TBA

July:  TBA

August: TBA

September: TBA

October: TBA

November: TBA

December: TBA