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The Evin Prison Bakers' Club
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes | Sepideh Gholian
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How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet – in spite of anything and everything – they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together. Sepideh Gholian, in prison since 2018, bakes scones for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter, a pumpkin pie for Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, madeleines for Marzieh Amiri, serving time for a May Day demonstration in 2019. The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a call to stand up for Woman, Life, Freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.
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MaggieCarr
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Had I not read a half dozen books set in/around Afghanistan & India prisons I don't think I would have been able to get through this book of essays. But because I have I could picture these women, living out sentences that are not earned, in conditions inhumane, but still with a drive to find joy in the relationships they are building with one another despite their realities. I especially enjoyed the parts...

MaggieCarr ... where they've added steps for dancing, and singing, or listening to a specific song into the recipe instructions. 2w
Prairiegirl_reading I bought this after going through the #camplitsy long list. I really want to get to it! I have to learn to read faster. It sounds excellent. 2w
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Totally cheating here, because I already posted my four nominees for #CampLitsy25 but I just read about this upcoming release and it sounds like such a great one to read with this wonderful group! So if I'm allowed to sneak in a fifth nomination....

@BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks

Jas16 I haven‘t nominated anything so it can be counted as my nomination. 4mo
Deblovestoread I love that readers are rebels! 😂 4mo
squirrelbrain Hmmm…. You may be sent home early from camp! Only joking 🙃! Are you going to nominate @Jas16 - there‘s still loads of time? 4mo
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LeahBergen This sounds great! 4mo
Jas16 @squirrelbrain I think almost everything I was considering has been nominated so likely not. 4mo
mcctrish I think one sounds great 4mo
Bookwormjillk Another one for my TBR! 4mo
TheKidUpstairs @squirrelbrain LOL...uh oh, I might lose tuck shop privileges! 4mo
TheKidUpstairs @LeahBergen doesn't it just? I couldn't resist! 4mo
TheKidUpstairs @Deblovestoread Rebel Without Willpower! 4mo
Prairiegirl_reading @Jas16 I came here to say this as well!! 🤣 4mo
BarbaraBB @Prairiegirl_reading @Jas16 no need to nominate if you don‘t want to. The longlist is going to be loooong and we‘re glad you‘re joining us! 4mo
BarbaraBB @TheKidUpstairs I‘m happy you added this book 😉 (edited) 4mo
Sace The cover and blurb alone grabs my attention. 4mo
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