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A review by emanon_
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
5.0
I hate that this book made me cry so many times. I think reading as 1st generation immigrant form a Middle Eastern country makes it a completely different experience to reading it out of interest.
I felt a lot of the emotions and I share a lot of the mentioned guilt. Marjane (a beautiful name btw) explained it all so well! I felt heard…
Am I just dumping my emotions online? Yes.
Anyways, the book was given ti me by an Iranian friend of mine which made 10x more valuable. The reading experience is amazing. There are some great, funny moments as well as some horrific ones. I laughed at the stupidly sad stereotypes and cried for the horrible things these people had gone through. I remind me of the world today which is obviously bad but I’m happy that literature like that exists out there. It’s needed, it gives perspective and it teaches of human compassion (western media loved to twist things and sometimes you just need to look at it from a local perspective)
I felt a lot of the emotions and I share a lot of the mentioned guilt. Marjane (a beautiful name btw) explained it all so well! I felt heard…
Am I just dumping my emotions online? Yes.
Anyways, the book was given ti me by an Iranian friend of mine which made 10x more valuable. The reading experience is amazing. There are some great, funny moments as well as some horrific ones. I laughed at the stupidly sad stereotypes and cried for the horrible things these people had gone through. I remind me of the world today which is obviously bad but I’m happy that literature like that exists out there. It’s needed, it gives perspective and it teaches of human compassion (western media loved to twist things and sometimes you just need to look at it from a local perspective)