This book was written before the American election of Donald Trump. And yet, in many places, it sounds like a warning. Writing about the Western-named "Arab Spring" she said it was wrongly named (and calls it the tumult of 2011), she describes Morsi's election in Egypt in particularly harsh terms: "What should a society do when a leader that is elected through a democratic process then seeks to subvert the very legal foundation on which the state, constitution, and electorate that voted him into power is based on? Can you allow a democratically elected leader to essentially destroy and subvert the principles that put him in power in the first place?"

This book is tinged with regret and anguish as the Nobel Peace Prize winner finds herself exiled from home. It is warm and engaging. I only wish we had heard more details about the cases she faced - but for various reasons, including the safety of those still in Iran - details are often only sketched out unless it directly happened to her.

She is not sparing of the cost of her living of her ideals, including the effects on her daughters and her husband.

A peek into life in Iran and the devastation that can be wrought by repressive regimes, it was well worth reading.