This stunning collection of short stories captures the lives of women in Iran in the aftermath of the revolution. Evoking the enormous isolation of daily existence, and the persistence of a people living under a repressive regime, these literary gems reward us with an inside view of a turbulent and closed society. Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone is a historian at the American University School of International Service and the editor of On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era. --Provided by publisher.