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Persepolis (Paperback, 2004, Pantheon) 5 stars

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in …

NPR recently recommended this for those curious about the terrible situation in Iran - both specifically today's headlines and generally - and I concur. It's a breezy but not quite easy read, a YA-targeted graphic novelization of an Iranian teen struggling to grow up in modern times, to the point of getting her father to smuggle home some American pop culture.