After failed friendships and relationships, Satrapi returns home to an Iran of public and private contradictions, and strives to reconnect with her family and friends. With love, they sent her to study in Vienna.įor the adolescent Satrapi, Europe proves to be a different kind of oppression: isolating and Othering. As the tides changed in their society, her boldness and need to question the status quo signaled a need for change from her parents. Satrapi's illustration and storytelling intersperse humor with the growing repression from those who would twist faith into a cudgel for power. During her childhood, Satrapi's parents cultivated her intellectual curiosity, political mind, and independence. In stark black and white illustrations, Satrapi delivers a coming-of-age story amidst a backdrop of violent political upheaval and the Iran-Iraq War.
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