Lipstick Jihad

• Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran - Azadeh Moaveni

This is a great book for someone looking to understand the emotional ordeals that face living in America as an immigrant. (Mind you, she's a legal immigrant, or an emigre to be more specific.) She struggles with issues of trying to fit in while her parents struggle to hold onto their own culture. Then, feeling like she doesn't fit in 100% in America, she travels to Iran only to find out that her home culture is also foreign to her. She struggles with the realization that she'll never fully fit in anywhere and that she'll have to come to terms with that. It's a great book. If it weren't for one page, I'd use it in a high school class, but parents would freak over that one page so I can't. I wish they'd realize that there kids have already heard this stuff before and be okay with it as long as the book wasn't teaching them how to do something, or advocating doing it... It just alludes to something that would set off most parents. But, since you're all adults...READ IT!