Random House Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis 2: The Story Of A Return cene

Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoirincomic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteenyearold Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West.

Here we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight years of her life: an eyeopening and sometimes lonely four years of high school in Vienna, followed by a supremely educational and heartwrenching four years back home in Iran. Just as funny and heartbreaking as its predecessor with perhaps an even greater sense of the ridiculous inspired by life in a fundamentalist state Persepolis 2 is also as cleareyed and searing in its condemnation of fundamentalism and its cost to the human spirit. In its depiction of the universal trials of adolescent life and growing into adulthood here compounded by being an outsider both abroad and at home, and by living in a state where you have no right to show your hair, wear makeup, run in public, date, or question authority it's raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.