RaveTIMEA memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, Persepolis provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. It has the strange quality of a note in a bottle written by a shipwrecked islander ... Unlike the complex nuances of the story, the artistic details are minimal and shading is non-existent...Satrapi makes wonderful use of solid, high-contrast black shapes ... Written with astonishing detail and from the point of view of a child, Persepolis domesticates world events and makes them relatable and real. It pulls back the veil on a culture that utterly preoccupies us, but about which we know little.
