Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during …
Review of 'Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis #1-2)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This was a truly fantastic -- spare, haunting, starkly illustrated, in turns innocent and worldly -- memoir, depicting the coming of age of a young, Iranian girl. Like the best of such memoirs, the author spends equal time on the political and historical events in Iran, the day-to-day life in such a regime and normal childhood experiences.