My book group in San Francisco was excited about this book but upon reading it was pretty disappointed - and we rarely all agree. Myself, I thought the book was an inconsistent rant. In one paragraph the author muses about being a speechwriter for an admired politician but when he calls her a "foreigner" in Iran, she writes a contradictory multi-page temper tantrum about how horrible he is. It is difficult to connect with an author whose own beliefs seemed so subject to mood change and immaturity.