IR VERDICT:
THE POMEGRANATE is author Izi Stoll’s compelling account of her formative years as a gifted student and later, neuroscientist, who faced personal and professional challenges and survived a questionable childhood. She is an absorbing and surprisingly relatable storyteller, conveying her travels, research, broken relationships, atheism, and revelations about herself and her family with genuine, well-delineated humanity and composure.