A review by library_hungry
The Sigh by Marjane Satrapi

3.0

I was afraid Audrey Niffenegger had ruined me for odd little fables, but this one was quite charming. It was odd, and disjointed, and maybe there's some fairy tale logic that I don't understand? At first it was a beauty and the beast thing (with a really creepy, stalky component, instead of the kidnapping relationship in the traditional story), and then instalove, and then a weird fairy tale moment with a feather, and then three little vignettes in which the main character asks to be sold into slavery and then solves all her master's problems. It's weird, weird, weird, but all fairy tales are.

Fairy tales are like poems; there's the text and the subtext. I'm not good at subtext, but this made enough sense that its charm won me over.