{"product_id":"climbing-over-grit-9789176375532","title":"Climbing Over Grit","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marzeeh Laleh Chini\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: L'Aleph\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: L'Aleph\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Canada Book Awards\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1957. Though they were from a wealthy and well-respected family, \u003cem\u003eNajma\u003c\/em\u003e's parents decided to marry off her sister at the age of nine. While crying for her and pitying her, \u003cem\u003eNajma\u003c\/em\u003e knew little that she would be next. Six years later, eleven-year-old \u003cem\u003eNajma\u003c\/em\u003e is resentful and unforgiving because her parents married her off at age 11. But the harshest moment of her life is when she inadvertently shapes a similar destiny for her daughter \u003cem\u003eJaleh\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing a child bride, \u003cem\u003eNajma\u003c\/em\u003e suffers through all forms of abuse before she can convince her violent husband that she deserves better and would continue her education regardless of his beating. But life the way she knows it changes forever when a revolution happens and an Islamic group takes control of the Iranian government in 1979. Mass arrests and execution of the opposition frightens \u003cem\u003eNajma\u003c\/em\u003e and her husband who have to make a decision to save her 'too-curious' daughter from a brutal government. Climbing Over Grit follows the odyssey of \u003cem\u003eNajma\u003c\/em\u003e's family winding through the dangerous \u003cem\u003eBousher-Shiraz\u003c\/em\u003e roads, during the eight-year war with Iraq, recounting the story of a family that has to pay a huge price for having made a mistake while trying to protect a loved one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"L'Aleph","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45139499286679,"sku":"9789176375532","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789176375532.webp?v=1767654300","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/climbing-over-grit-9789176375532","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}