Kristine Brancolini’s Reviews > The Stationery Shop > Status Update

Although I have known from the beginning that Roya and Bahman will be forced apart by the coup in Iran that brought Reza Shah to power in 1953, I found myself reading quickly to learn what happened. I’m a sucker for teenagers who meet and fall in love in a Tehran bookstore. Now I want to know what happened after the events of August 19, until they meet again as senior citizens in 2013.