Together Tea

It's always through the women that the men express their agenda. Now she has to cover up so they can feel like they are in power. A marvelous book about family, love, war and togetherness.Dive into Darya and Mina’s journey from war-ridden Iran to the USA.Along with the path,,they find themselves and......more

The entire time I read this book, I was homesick for Fataneh, a neighbor from years ago with who I bonded. She and her family upgraded our everyday, plain-old neighborhood to something much more exotic. They were from Tehran. A family of mom, dad and girls the same ages as mine, but very shy and cov......more

What a wonderful story! It begins in America, where Darya, a caring mom, tells her 25 year old daughter, Mina, that she found a wonderful man she wanted her to meet. He was one out of dozens that Mina had to meet with her mom and dad present... Darya grew up in Iran, where her own mother arranged her......more

perhaps i'm not too comfortable with the way marjan kamali depicted islam here, so this book leaves quite a bad taste in my mouth. i understand that Iran was (or is it still ongoing? i need to read more on their islamic revolution) ruled and dominated by islamic extremists, and not to mention their......more

The thing I liked most about this book was learning about Iranian culture and how it humanized the Iranian people. The romance plot line was weak. The description of food was almost obsessive.......more