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This is the story of a childhood contemporaneous with mine, but under immensely different circumstances. Marjane Satrapi presents a clear-eyed vision of her upbringing in a very difficult time in her native Iran's history. She comes from a family of intellectuals and dissidents, who go from oppression under the Shah's regime to oppression under the Ayatollah Khomenei's Islamic Republic. As she is growing up, around her is war, summary executions, and gangs running the streets enforcing 'virtue.'
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A difficult subject captured beautifully in this graphic novel. Highly recommend.
Apr 17, 2017
Kayla
marked it as to-read
