Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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3 primary booksPersepolis is a 1-book series first released in 2003 with contributions by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa, and Anjali Singh.
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A fascinating look at another culture and its radical changes, told by a protagonist with profound ties to the personal and political aspects of these changes. This was compulsively readable, and really gave me a new point of view.
This is the second graphic novel memoir that I've read. The other was George Takei's They Called Us Enemy. Some thoughts about Persepolis • A story of something in the historically recent past that I knew very little about • Told from a unique perspective • The graphic novel format is interesting and tells the story at a fast pace • A sad, difficult story with violence discussed • A cautionary tale about fundamentalism • Builds empathy for the people inside countries with oppressive governments who are engagedin war I started reading Persepolis when there was a discussion about it among our district's school board. The book had been approved by our literature review committee and gone to a test class. The last step was for the board to give final approval, but some school board members expressed concern about derogatory language toward women. In the end, they approved the book. I'm glad that this book will be part of core curriculum for 11th grade students. The derogatory language? This happened maybe three times and always from the “bad guys”.
I read this book with my son, who had to read it for a English class. I confess I didn't know anything about the Islamic Revolution and I would probably not have picked this book on my own. But I'm happy that I had a chance to read it and I will definitely read the second book in the series.
