4 Years In Tehran: -v0.7- -monia Sendicate-

If you want a linear, comforting narrative about a young woman finding herself in the East, read Eat, Pray, Love . If you want a harrowing, straightforward exile testimony, read Reading Lolita in Tehran .

Let us begin with the subtitle’s strangeness: -v0.7- . Why not version 1.0? Why claim a finished manuscript is merely seventh-tenths of a whole? Sendicate answers this early. She argues that diaspora memory is perpetually in beta. The four years she spent in Tehran between 2018 and 2022 (implied by context, never stated directly) cannot be finalized because the city itself refuses to finalize its own narrative. 4 Years in Tehran -v0.7- -Monia Sendicate-