Come join a new book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, that brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. We will discuss Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi at this meeting.

For two years before Azar Nafisi left Iran in 1997, she gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university, and her account flashes back to to the early days of the revolution, when Nafisi first taught at the University of Tehran. A fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and a rare glimpse of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran, this is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice.

Limited to 15 readers, registration required. Books provided by WPL and can be picked up at the library, call Jenks to register first, at 781-721-7136