The Ruby Tear Catcher by Nahid Sewell - The subtitle An Iranian Woman's Story of Intolerance isn't a pretty enough subtitle for a beautiful story about Leila, a girl born to a Persian family, raised in an increasingly intolerant time in her country and educated in America. It's a novel drawn on the personal experiences of the author. It's beautifully written, and you'll find a tale of love and loss and good times and terrible times, open mindedness and oppression, and life and death. The tear catcher is a vase of sorts: "It's shaped to fit your eye, azizam, to catch tears. In ancient Persia, when a sultan returned from battle, he checked his wives' tear catchers to see who among them had wept in his absence and missed him the most." Thursday, October 15, 2015
THE RUBY TEAR CATCHER
The Ruby Tear Catcher by Nahid Sewell - The subtitle An Iranian Woman's Story of Intolerance isn't a pretty enough subtitle for a beautiful story about Leila, a girl born to a Persian family, raised in an increasingly intolerant time in her country and educated in America. It's a novel drawn on the personal experiences of the author. It's beautifully written, and you'll find a tale of love and loss and good times and terrible times, open mindedness and oppression, and life and death. The tear catcher is a vase of sorts: "It's shaped to fit your eye, azizam, to catch tears. In ancient Persia, when a sultan returned from battle, he checked his wives' tear catchers to see who among them had wept in his absence and missed him the most." 
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