SASMM Book Club will be meeting on Saturday, October 27, 2018 at SASMM Member, Karen Roberton’s home  at 6:00 p.m. in Montgomery Village, Maryland.  The book that is up for discussion is Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.  Karen Roberton will be leading the discussion so please RSVP to her at jkrober25@gmail.com so you can get her address and we know how many will be attending.

About Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by GoodReads

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

We are always looking for author/book suggestions.  Please either come to a book club meeting or send in your suggestions so that we can include them with the others.  Remember, if your book suggestion is chosen, you’re the next host/hostess!