MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewAs much as Tehran Children depicts the twists and turns of the author’s discovery of her father’s life story and the reasons for his lifelong silence about his past, it also narrates in great detail her own pathway of self-discovery ... Yet this intriguing story would have benefited from a stronger editorial hand that might have restrained the author’s many distracting digressions. To be sure, some of these are well worth more sustained critical consideration, like her meetings with \'philosemitic\' Poles who equate Jewish and Polish suffering in a vision of a \'shared\' history (a view curiously aligned with the current Polish government’s position). Though ostensibly positive, this is yet another of the \'erasures\' Dekel calls to our attention and so poignantly laments.
