slaporte 's review for:

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

5.0

emotional

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Beautiful graphic novel.
Tragic story; I have to read the 2nd.
I had thought I had read this, but didn't ... maybe I did but didn't note it. 
Book club selection for Village Banned Book Club - perfect 
Anyway, the times surrounding a reading play a factor. I read this 2025, TRump 47 times,
so that tempered the read...

I enjoyed the chapter title graphics. I thought the title "Iron" was odd, until the way was revealed.
There were a number of times I had to close my eyes.

Marj was a spunky girl with interesting ancestors. What a challenging time for her to come of age in 
and for her radical family.
Because this was a graphic novel and I'm a 'slow' reader, I bought my own copy, plus I could dog-ear pages. Page 42 had a penciled note: "She uses the WHOLE page to show how big the celebration was instead of one or two boxes" This was a good observation...I noted it when there were other full page images.
One note I didn't understand in  "The Trip". On pages 73,74,75 and 76 was TEMPTATION.