Just Read: Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic about a girl named Marjane Satrapi who grows up when the Islamic Revolution happened in Iran. I loved this book.
One of the things that I really liked was that the way each chapter was written nails down the point of view from Marjane’s age such that it started out with very child-like thoughts and stories, but as she grows up the narrative/dialogue became much more adult like.
But what I liked the most was that many chapters of the book felt like they were written about myself or my family. Perhaps this was because I noticed that the Islamic Revolution had the same sort of shennanigans happening back home, and when Marjarne is sent to study another country (just like I have) later on, the author excels at depicting some of the complications when two different cultures change a person, especially while they’re still growing up.
I’d recommend this book to any of my friends because it’s a great read and because I feel that if they read it they might understand me a whole lot better, at least how I feel as a person, which is sometimes hard to describe.
And I haven’t seen the movie version yet, but now I want to buy it.