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seamus_malek's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.5
erikariehigano22's review
5.0
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis has wrenched my heart once again in the sequel of her first book. Satrapi brings us to her life abroad away from home in Vienna as she navigated puberty, adolescence, independence and adjusting to her new home.
Some of the panels really hit close to home for me. This book really divulges the migrant experience. I was older than Satrapi when I left home to a foreign country for a supposedly better life. Yet all the dialogue she presented in the book really resonated with me. Already early in the story I knew this book will hold a special place in my heart.
The realisations she had when she went home to Iran, and the psychological issues she endured on her conflict between her beliefs and conforming to the society at her home that only continues to strangle her. This book really made a profound effect to me as a migrant, it felt as if I saw myself in Satrapi. If only I was as courageous and strong as her.
Even with the bittersweet end that she accepted the cruel fact that her home was not the place for her to prosper, it did allowed her to find herself after being lost physically and mentally. And I think that's the most beautiful lesson in the book.
I highly recommend this graphic novel. I am now looking forward to purchasing my own copy of the series for my personal shelf soon.
Some of the panels really hit close to home for me. This book really divulges the migrant experience. I was older than Satrapi when I left home to a foreign country for a supposedly better life. Yet all the dialogue she presented in the book really resonated with me. Already early in the story I knew this book will hold a special place in my heart.
The realisations she had when she went home to Iran, and the psychological issues she endured on her conflict between her beliefs and conforming to the society at her home that only continues to strangle her. This book really made a profound effect to me as a migrant, it felt as if I saw myself in Satrapi. If only I was as courageous and strong as her.
Even with the bittersweet end that she accepted the cruel fact that her home was not the place for her to prosper, it did allowed her to find herself after being lost physically and mentally. And I think that's the most beautiful lesson in the book.
I highly recommend this graphic novel. I am now looking forward to purchasing my own copy of the series for my personal shelf soon.
drivera55's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Racism, War, Islamophobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, Torture, Colonisation, Sexism, Genocide, and Misogyny
Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Homophobia
lyriclorelei's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
"When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection, our fear paralyzes us."
This volume is subtitled very well.
This volume is subtitled very well.
rstacey2000's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
trin's review
5.0
Rougher and less focused than [book: Persepolis], the first half of this volume focuses on Satrapi's life in Austria where her parents sent to be safe and to go to school. Though away from the war in Iran, she still stuggles, both with others' treatment of her as a foreigner and with growing up alone and very isolated. After a period in which she actually ends up living on the street, she returns gratefully to Iran; even if the country is still messed up, she has her family there. This is where the book really picked up for me, and the second half is as good as anything in the first volume. Satrapi talks about how different the internal world of Iranians is/was than the external: outside you have to appear to be conservative and pious, while at home people would hold wild parties, even orgies. "The more time passed," she writes, "the more I became conscious of the contrast between the official representation of my country and the real life of the people, the one that went on behind the walls." I love how Satrapi reinforces the fact that everyone, everywhere is essentially human—something I think the current American administration would like us to forget.
Not quite as good as Persepolis, but still excellent.
Not quite as good as Persepolis, but still excellent.