A small group, talking fervently until they kicked us out at 8. There were the inevitable parallels between Iran in the 80's and the US now. And after we got that out of our systems we went on to discuss how well her four featured novels resonated with what was happening in Iran. How many of the books in her bibliography we had read, and which ones we wanted to re-read now. And in the end, we decided to read 'Daisy Miller' for next second Tuesday instead of (in addition to?) 'House on Mango Street', which is reputed to be fairly lightweight. (And did she have an affair with her magician?)