We Lived to Tell is a searing memoir of life inside the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Azadeh Agah, Sousan Mehr and Shadi Parsi.

“Two mothers, awaiting execution, saying farewell to their children under a sky framed in barbed wire. The sun begins to set and darkness covers the trembling lives and resisting souls. I will write about this one day, I think to myself. This is not a myth or a legend; this is true and one day I will record it all.”

Sousan Mehr, We Lived to Tell:
Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women

Join us for the launch of We Lived to Tell Friday, November 23, 6pm at Hart House, University of Toronto. Sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Institute, PEN Canada, the Toronto Women's Bookstore and McGilligan Books.

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