Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

92 reviews

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This is really such an accessible look at living in Iran during the war in the 1980s, which honestly not a lot of YA lit really covers. It's a realtively simple art style, but there are panels that really get the emotions across. Marjane feels a lot of things, and props to her parents for encouraging the freedom she desired. 

There are parts of this that are also hard to read, given the subject matter. It would make great required reading for a social studies class in high school. It will definitely make for good discussion tonight at our book club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia and Rape

cofstars's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, War, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Self harm, Misogyny, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Death, Cursing, Religious bigotry, and Bullying

daniellekat's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

2.5

Oof. I’m having a really hard time rating this one. On one hand, it was a beautiful look at one girl’s coming of age in an environment of war and oppression. But on the other hand, I really disliked Marjane (which feels harsh because this is non fiction) and the way the narrative was told. Each chapter felt disjointed and somewhat unreliable. I don’t know if I just had high expectations or this just didn’t work for me. Either way I would still recommend because it was an accessible look at the turmoil in Iran during the late 80s and early 90s. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, War, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Xenophobia, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism, Drug use, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia and Ableism

aalayah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Murder, Drug abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, War, Misogyny, Grief, Gore, Cursing, Drug use, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Self harm, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Sexism, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Blood, Bullying, and Body shaming

saviross's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed the way Marjane shared her story - the illustrations themselves were funny at times, very powerful at other times. I regret taking so long to read this book (after avoiding it in when it was an assigned reading in university), but am very happy to have read it now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Violence, Sexism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Homophobia

orville's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racism and Islamophobia

pixieeeee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Xenophobia, Torture, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

jaimeeslitlife's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

I've been loving memoirs lately, and Satrapi's graphic memoir is an absolute gem. PERSEPOLIS details Satrapi's experience growing up in Iran and what being Iranian means to her. It is equal parts funny, heartbreaking, and informative, and Satrapi's bold black-and-white art is the perfect vessel to help tell her story. Though vast in scope and heavy with content, PERSEPOLIS is incredibly welcoming and relatable. Read this for the coming-of-age story, read this to get a fuller picture of a country so often reduced to its worst moments, read this because it's a damn good book. 🤘

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Sexism, War, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, and Suicide attempt

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

So heartbreaking but very punk rock 5🤘

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Confinement, Hate crime, War, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Rape, Sexism, Medical trauma, Murder, Genocide, Classism, Religious bigotry, Blood, Death, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Gaslighting, Grief, and Mental illness

amy_reading_23's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Suicide, Death, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse