A review by dllh
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar

3.0

I struggled a bit with this one, taking nearly a week to go through its scant 250ish pages. Magical realism works for me sometimes and doesn't work for me other times, and I guess it didn't work for me entirely in this book. Parts of it were neat, but so much of it felt sort of randomly strung together to me that I had trouble staying interested. I was most interested in the Iranian history. The last fifth or so of the book landed better for me than much of the middle. So, it had some parts I enjoyed and some parts I read sort of glassy-eyed and mostly wanted to grit my teeth and get through. It was neither especially good to me nor especially bad; a two-star rating would feel stingy, though a three may be generous.