Nora is a 37-year-old teacher in an elementary school. She is single and lives a very lonely life, lacking any love or passion. She gives up any hope of being an artist, which has been her aim in life when she was younger. But then she gets a new student, Reza Shahid and she meets his parents Sirena and Skandar. She falls in love with the whole family, loving each member in a different way.
I really liked this book. The first thing that gripped me was the way Nora is given her own voice. Nora is not a character used as a tool for the author to communicate with the reader, she’s powerfully brought to life, with all of her strengths and faults. The other characters feel very alive too and I started to develop conflicted emotions for almost all of them. At some points, I found the book a bit stretched and expected something to pick up the pace, but it was not a big problem, because it never got dull.
This book poses many important questions about our existence and about love and art and to a certain extent, the author gives us her opinion about the answers, but she also leaves us enough space to make our own judgement.
Pickle Books 