I listened to this over about 2 weeks - found some of the description of the Tehran ambiance through the revolution until the author's immigration to be a very good point of view of understanding what that was like to live through, in particular for an educated woman. Some of the sections of the book were a bit self-indulgent and stories that seemed to have no purpose. The author comes off as very full of herself and her intellect in multiple sections, yet never communicated any real brilliance to me.
As an audio recording it was well done - good narrator, decent pace (pace of the book in parts is quite slow however).
It made me want to listen to other memoirs in audiobook - the format seems well adapted to this kind of material. I wouldn't seek out more work by Nafisi, but she did give some reading ideas for the future.
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