Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis is Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, and features her life in the city of Tehran from ages six to fourteen. The minimal black and white illustrations are emotional and often humorous, which exemplifies the tone of a war seen through a child’s playfully unsparing eyes. Satrapi depicts her story with bold lines and deceptively uncomplicated scenes, which are coupled with simplistic and emotional accounts of the madness around her.

Persepolis is both informative and compelling, comical and haunting. It was so popular in Europe that it was included in TIME magazine’s “Best Comix of 2003,” and was turned into a motion picture with the same title and art style. Satrapi also wrote the second volume, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, in which she is sent to Austria to live as a young woman.

This comic is recommended for Teen readers, ages 16 and up.

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