The Good Daughter A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden LIfe by Jasmin Darznik - This memoir takes place in Iran in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and then in small part in America, where a daughter discovers a photo of her mother as a young girl. The photo raises questions about her mother's life before she married the girl's father. A long kept secret is at the core of this memoir, and as the secret is revealed, there is a window of time wherein choices are available to the discoverer of the secret. Is the secret so old that there is no more to learn about it? Or is the secret one that now out in the open, can free the people to know each other and knit their lives back together? I'm interested in what happens to the secrets once revealed, and what choices are made by the person to whom the secret is revealed. It's also a story of a different culture and different generations, and how there are always forward thinkers navigating backward societies. It's those forward thinkers that propel cultures ahead by believing in educating girls. Throughout this memoir, there is much to ponder, because theirs was a male-driven society. The girls get ahead almost as if they slip through the cracks by chance, but almost never by choice. This is definitely worth reading. Do you have secrets?
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