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corinnekeener 's review for:
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
We discussed Persepolis 2 on episode 39.5 of The Bookstore podcast. You can find it anywhere you get your podcasts.
It's a little weird reviewing two volumes that I read consecutively that are mostly the same story and that I kind of think of as one thing. So my review for Persepolis 2 likely won't deviate much from the first.
This volume finds a slightly older Marjane as she struggles to settle in to life without her parents in Vienna. There are familiar notes of rebellion that stream through her story as she makes friends with wealthy European kids who fancy themselves to be anarchists. As the title implies, she also returns to Iran to find the country in even more turmoil than when she had left. Perhaps more than the first volume, this one struggled to keep my attention. It's at turns very dense with story and then a little light on other things. The same unevenness that threw me off with the first is present here. I still appreciate having read the story, but it was sometimes frustrating for me.
It's a little weird reviewing two volumes that I read consecutively that are mostly the same story and that I kind of think of as one thing. So my review for Persepolis 2 likely won't deviate much from the first.
This volume finds a slightly older Marjane as she struggles to settle in to life without her parents in Vienna. There are familiar notes of rebellion that stream through her story as she makes friends with wealthy European kids who fancy themselves to be anarchists. As the title implies, she also returns to Iran to find the country in even more turmoil than when she had left. Perhaps more than the first volume, this one struggled to keep my attention. It's at turns very dense with story and then a little light on other things. The same unevenness that threw me off with the first is present here. I still appreciate having read the story, but it was sometimes frustrating for me.