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I was thoroughly disappointed. The first volume was rather interesting and detailed, and I felt like I was getting a clear image of marijane as a young girl living in Tehran. Her second volume which followed her in Europe and into adulthood, something about the narrative style just felt more disjointed. I found it hard to understand her mindset, her choices. I also feel like because she was skipping so many years, it made it harder to understand marijane as a teen because she was just flyin ...more
I was thoroughly disappointed. The first volume was rather interesting and detailed, and I felt like I was getting a clear image of marijane as a young girl living in Tehran. Her second volume which followed her in Europe and into adulthood, something about the narrative style just felt more disjointed. I found it hard to understand her mindset, her choices. I also feel like because she was skipping so many years, it made it harder to understand marijane as a teen because she was just flyin ...more
Have been meaning to read this for ages. Have read bits and pieces of it - enough to grade a paper on it when students chose it to write a paper on it as a short story collection (one of my students wrote a comic/illustrated paper on this book that was brilliant and really helped me in seeing details in illustration that I may have missed otherwise). A great, engaging read about growing up, and an excellent insight into straddling two worlds and living and growing up during the Iranian Revolutio
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I don't know if I'd have the ovaries to say half the things that Marjane does to authority figures.
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Apr 21, 2013
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marked it as to-read
