Considering I know nothing of the Iranian Islamic revolution, this was a learning experience. It's terrible that this topic isn't ever brought up at school, in fact I barely knew anything about it. It was interesting to see a perspective of someone forced into Islam. I'm Muslim myself and I know that forced conversion is absolutely not allowed in Islam. Clearly not all Muslims followed this law. This first novel didn't was more of a setup in what's to come in Marjane's journey (I will be reading the next book) so I think her story can only get even more intriguing from here.