GENRE: Graphic Novel - Memoir
HONORS: 2002 Angoulême Prize for Scenario
REVIEW: Volume 2 picks up where the first left off, which is when Marjane has separated from her parents to seek safety and study French in Austria. She is a young woman now, and the second volume reads more as a coming of age story than the first. Marjane has to find new friends and fit in, has become a bit promiscuous (compared to Iranian standards), and has sunk into deep depression. She even experiments with drugs and ends up homeless for a period of time. The second volume is what young adults will relate to the most because of Marjane's alienation and difficulty fitting into the world. After a series of dark events, she then returns to Iran to reunite with her family and to come to terms with her identity.
OPINION: The second volume does not focus so much on Iranian history, but it is where Marjane deals with her even darker past. Even though her parents felt that sending her away was protected her from the grim realities of warfare, she still could not escape her own pain of depression. On a side note, although graphic novels are a still a new and evolving, Persepolis will be deemed a classic. That is how GREAT it was.
IDEAS: see post for Volume 1.
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