This work is several stories of people who live now in Tehrhan.  Some are composite characters, some just name changes, all fascinating.I learned a few things.  For instance in Iran sex change operations put you and your family at a higher social status than being gay.  The LGBTQ community is still very oppressed it's just than trans women are not as oppressed.  Old money likes living in Tehran even if their old life is under constant threat.  That those that the regime see as subversive are tortured but afterward they work for the regime.  Mostly this work reaffirmed that the popular image of Iran that the GOP has pushed since Regan is at best misleading and at worst a flat out lie.  And that maybe the U.S. needs to back Iran instead of the equally oppressive  Saudi regime?