A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri Narrated by, Sneha
Mathan
I received this book from the Librarything Early Reviewers Program
but was having a hard time with the names so I bought it on audio and I’m very
glad I did!
When Saba is 11 years old she remembers her twin sister Mahtab
and her mother getting on a plane to America and leaving her and her father in
Iran…This is what she remembers but is this what happened?
I felt Saba was an unreliable narrator she makes up this
whole life for her twin sister Mahtab and her mother they go to America and she
has this free American life and goes to Harvard and becomes a journalist which
is Saba’s dream. As a reader you will have an inkling in the back of your head
as to what really happened where they really are but until it is actually
revealed you want to believe Saba. Also the reveal for me wasn’t what I expected
but I don’t want to say too much more about that!
Saba is not always likable but yet you feel for her. Saba
always felt like she was missing out so she made up these wondrous stories of
what her sister was accomplishing in the US even though she had a pretty normal
upbringing considering it is Iran in the 80’s it isn’t till she is older ,well
marrying age, that this doesn’t quite hold true anymore. I kind of felt bad for
her father at times, I felt like she treated him like a second class citizen
when he was all she had and was trying his best, and I was glad to see that as
she got older she realized this.
This is a really good story though at times a little hard to
follow, it was nice to read a story about Iran that didn’t have so much
violence , yes there is some but it comes from something/someone different than
you will expect it to. This is the story of a family and a young girl’s life
without her twin and mother and how that affects her entire life and who she
becomes.
Sneha Mathan narration is well done her accent is not to strong;
I think it's just the right amount to convey they are in Iran. She has a great
voice and I thought she really helped convey the emotions of everyone she
narrated. This was my first book narrated by Sneha Mathan but I don’t think it
will be my last as I really enjoyed her voice.
4 Stars
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