Educational Gifts for Teens

PERSIANALITY

(A Perfect Young-Adult Gift)

Think before you speak, read before you think. The further the distance, the lower the resistance. Our problems are less threatening in exotic clothes, in a distant land, with a foreign accent. Distance also helps young ones to realize, their problems are universal, and can be overcome. They’re not as alone as they think. People all over the world wrestle with their same problems.

Jamileh Delkash is a clever chatterbox. A Persian cross between Anne of Green Gables and Joan of Arc, with a double dose of privilege, self-righteousness, and religious arrogance. Jamileh is a girl with potential, but prone to drama, exaggeration, and bending a religious principle . . . or two.

Persianality transports you to the northern coast of Iran, to explore a sleepy little fishing village off the Caspian Sea. Girls can vote at sixteen; medical schools are free; many of Iran’s youth do their post-graduate work in Western universities. Yet, something is wrong in Iran. All the teens sense it.

Every father should buy this coming-of-age novel for his daughter, because every page invokes a discussion. The same moral questions plague teens everywhere.

So please, oh please, I beg, I pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall. Fill the shelves with love and lore, and your children will thank you, evermore.

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