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Tim, a troubled recent college graduate and "aspiring writer," is still living at home with his mom and dog, despite his desire to be "the second coming of F. Scott Fitzgerald." He spends his days roaming the house, on the toilet, snorting pain killers and reluctantly having drinks with his old childhood friend, John. When Tim's mom leaves the house to attend the opening of her other son, Lucas' play, she asks her cleaning woman, Isabel, a Latina immigrant, to stay after hours to keep an eye on Tim.
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Linda Lombardo
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
