Book 13: Persepolis 2, by Marjane Satrapi

I wrote a few days ago about Persepolis, which I enjoyed so much I went straight to my library Web site and reserved the follow-up. The continuing memoir-in-graphic-novel-form takes up where our heroine, Marjane, left off in the first book. At that point, her parents had sent her away from Iran due to the strife in that country, intending for her to live with friends in Switzerland. It's not long before the fact that she is Iranian becomes an issue in her daily life - her classmates call her ugly, they think the worst of her because of political views that apply to her countrymen, and she's also at the very worst of her awkward teenage growth spurt. Eventually, after moving from place to place and eventually finding herself homeless and ill, she calls her family and asks to return home, where things are nothing like she remembered. Again, the drawing in the book is superlative and she details her story both with pathos and a marvelous sense of humor. Satrapi has said that she intends the story to be a four-parter, so I'm definitely anticipating the next two installments with eagerness.