Social Justice Reading Club

An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists
and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood
uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical
acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, 
Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir
of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Intensely personal,
profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story
of growing up and a stunning reminder of the human cost of war
and political repression. It shows how we carry on, through laughter
and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl
with whom we cannot help but fall in love. 

[from: https://libguides.marshall.edu/bridgingculturesbookshelf/persepolis]