{"title":"Marjan Kamali","description":"Marjan Kamali, born in Turkey to Iranian parents, spent her childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award. She is the author of The Lion Women of Tehran, The Stationery Shop, and Together Tea. Marjan lives with her husband in the Boston area. 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Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa's warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming \"lion women.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls' high school in Iran, Ellie's memories of Homa begin to fade. 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