''A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran'' is a 2014 memoir by

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, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, published by

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/ Eamon Dolan. It discusses the 2009–11 detention of American hikers by Iran. The book uses the first-person narrative and switches between the points of view of Bauer, Fattal, and Shourd. The book ends with the authors, after their release, adjusting to the free world and discussing the

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, Israel, and regime change. '' Publishers Weekly'' stated that the book has "Moments of humor and insight" and that the "voices" of the co-authors "remain oddly similar".

Reception

Susanne Pari, an Iranian American who wrote a review for the '' San Francisco Chronicle'' wrote that the " detailed, nuanced, honest, full-bodied memoir" has "an exciting pace" and that it had an "objective" treatment of the subject matter.

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concluded that the book is "An unsugared account that demonstrates the admirable, unbreakable bond of friends, parents and countrymen." Bob Goldfarb of the Jewish Book Council stated that it is "it’s absorbing and hard to put down" and that the book "offers many of the pleasures of an epistolary novel."

References

External links

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