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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi

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"Persepolis is a graphic novel that I saw a lot of people reading, and I had just started getting excited about graphic novels and comic books. I was working with high school students, and they had to read it for school. So I just read it along with them, and it was wonderful. It's the story of the author, Marjane Satrapi, who grows up in Iran and it's the story of her growing up from age 6 to 14 and just a lot of things happening in her family and a lot of things happening in the country. The whole time I was so excited reading it, and just the combination of the looking of the images and seeing the words and how they come together was just a really good combination. I don't know if I'd say it's easier or harder to read a memoir when it's in a graphic novel form, but I definitely like the way she used black and white images combined with the words used. It's almost you get feeling of looking at somebody's old black and white family photos and then seeing things written on the back, and it gives you this feeling that you're seeing someone's secret family history. There was a funny part where she was growing up, and she's not really allowed to show that she's interested or excited about western culture. There's a part where she's maybe 12 or 13, and she starts getting excited about punk rock and different music; and her parents are smuggling posters back in for her from other countries. That part was really funny. She really has a good sense of humor and a good sense of a rebel in her. Anyone high school age and on would probably enjoy it -- maybe even younger, too, just because the images are so nice to look at that there's a lot you can get from it just on that level. It's also a coming of age story, which I think is really for people to identify with, but I really liked Persepolis a lot. I would give Persepolis five stars out of five, definitely."