katekintailbc | Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi (Reply)

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6777416/

After reading the first volume earlier this year, I immediately started this volume, which has sat on my bookshelves since 2008 because it took me that long to get off my butt and take out a copy of the first volume from the library. I'm very glad to have finally read both.

This is the continuing memoir of a young Iranian girl. She has been displaced from her home for her own safety and is trying to learn how to grow up in a world so much different from what she's used to, fearing she might never see her family again. When she finally gets back to Iran, so much around her has changed, including the political climate, but she finds it just as hard to live in this Iran. She struggles to be herself and to find love.

This book is full of the same sort of humor and startlingly personal insight as the first. I really enjoyed reading more and finding out what happens to her. This book is enlightening, educational, and emotional.

Read & removed from TBR list