The Lion Women of Tehran vs When the Jessamine Grows: Which Should You Read?

The Lion Women of Tehran Marjan Kamali · 2025 ★★★★☆ 4.5 Moderate

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless…

When the Jessamine Grows Donna Everhart · 2024 ★★★★☆ 4.4 Moderate

From the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill, an evocative, morally complex novel set in rural 19th century North Carolina, as one woman fights to keep her family united, her farm running, and her convictions whole…