Camelia save yourself by telling the truth / Camelia Enterkhabifard / 245 pages

This is the story of a young woman in Iran and how she now lives in the United States.  I don't want to live in the Ozarks, but I really, really don't want to be a female in Iran.  Minor things like not dressing properly in hajib or even wearing pink or red can cause a woman to be stopped by the "Guidance Patrol" who can warn you, hit you, or even arrest you. Worse things can happen like lashings or stoning.  Camelia had grown up during a free-er era when the Shaw was the king.  Women has some freedoms.  She became a teen under the Ayatollah Khomeini.  That was when women lost many rights.  She was a reporter and poet.  She really tested the edges of what was allowed during that time.  She was actually in the United States for a while, but returned to Iran.  It was then that she was arrested and taken to prison where she spent three months.  Most of her time was spent being blindfolded and interrogated.  She was threatened with torture, but was wise enough to "confess" to whatever they wanted her to confess to which was a ridiculous list of "crimes" including sleeping with her uncle since they just took all the names from her address book.  The worst thing was to have to make a false accusation about someone else which did not go well for that person.  Ultimately, she agreed to spy for the government at her place of employment as a reporter.  Her friend, the editor, of course knew this, so she put her on unimportant jobs so she wouldn't have to "know" anything really important.  Finally, she got permission (yes, women need permission of a man to travel) to go back to the United States.  She lives in New York City, but is either brave enough or crazy enough to report from Afghanistan.