A celebration of American fiction from the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi is an enthusiast. In the epilogue to her book, "The Republic of Imagination," she states that she began her analysis (but, really, celebration) of American literature intending to write about 24 books. She ended up choosing three: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Babbitt" and "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." In these works