Her mother - rebellious, brave - forced to dye her hair and wear dark glasses after being photographed without a veil. The loving grandmother who tried to guide Marjane without scaring her. The simple act of leaving the house became fraught.Īs Marjane’s story unfolds, we meet the other remarkable people in her life: The uncle who was a political prisoner and exile. She was separated from her male classmates.
And the next, veils were required at school. One day, life was the ‘normal’ that she knew.
Intelligent and outspoken, Marjane is both the author and our heroine - a fierce 10-year-old when the story opens, grappling with figuring out herself while the world outside her door explodes with violence.
Her story strikes complex emotional chords, both terrible and sweet. This autobiographical graphic novel recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Iran during the 1978 revolution - by any measure, a challenging time to be coming of age.
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