In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and
most original memoirs of our day, " Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her
heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic
Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane
flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once
there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and
while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders,
she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging.
Finding that she misses