I picked this book out for my book club. Not a one of us finished the book. The book represents the brave albeit secretive rebellion of women reading forbidding Western classics in a country where Islamic extremists rule and suppress enlightenment in the name of morality. We all wanted to champion the author for bucking the system and wished to applaud her book but found ourselves becoming bogged down in too many names and details that made its reading tedious. Congratulations to those who stick with it and hopefully are inspired by it.