Reviews tagging 'Death'

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

184 reviews

asurasantosha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia and War

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, and Death

akwake's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Death, and War

amschelly153's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Vulnerable. Heart breaking. Real. It feels like it invites the reader in to what should be a lovely, fun childhood that has been taken away by war, political decisions, and shines a light on how the globe affected an area that was running fine by itself before others stepped in.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Murder, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, and Classism

lilreddress's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Sexism, Death, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Homophobia, Cancer, Bullying, Murder, Self harm, Blood, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, and Suicide

kooky_kayla's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and War

alatarmaia's review

5.0

The thoughts of a child are simultaneously mature and very, well, childish, growing up through such things. I find myself returning a lot to the young Marji who talks to God. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Murder

Moderate: Death

tree_branch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, War, Violence, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Death

literarylikeys's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Drug use, Death, and Torture

Minor: Suicide attempt

evevallarta's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Amazing and informative memoir about growing up in Iran, the war, society and estigma. A must read for everyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, and Genocide

cherub__'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Truly excellent read. A marvelous blend of prose and visual art. Satrapi's voice as an author is equally distinctive as her illustration style as an artist. Her story feels like it manages to capture something both deeply personal as well as something felt broadly among an entire generation of Iranians growing up during and after the Revolution. The empathy displayed here is striking, especially because it is applied just as strongly to Satrapi's younger self as to her peers, her family, and friends. Reading Persepolis really does take me back to the mind of a child, then a teenager, and then a young adult -- despite my complete unfamiliarity with Satrapi's cultural background and specific experiences, her story is felt relatable to me.

Cannot recommend this book enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Torture, Classism, Infidelity, Ableism, Death, Islamophobia, War, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Drug use