The author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature.
Contains eight short stories by American feminist and sociologist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and includes an excerpt from her novel "Herland," a tale about three male explorers who stumble into an all-female society, and two nonfiction selections.
A story of two young artists who become the best friends with one is sick of pneumonia. She is convinced that when the last leaf has fallen from the ivy outside her window, that she will die.
