Comments on: Book of the Month: Persepolis https://www.comicsgirl.com/2010/05/05/book-of-the-month-persepolis/ Fri, 07 May 2010 18:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: comicsgirl https://www.comicsgirl.com/2010/05/05/book-of-the-month-persepolis/comment-page-1/#comment-19274 Fri, 07 May 2010 18:28:10 +0000 http://www.comicsgirl.com/?p=1589#comment-19274 In reply to Randy.

I definitely am interested in Zahra’s Paradise. I also saw another graphic memoir about growing up in Iran in the bookstore but I immediately forgot the name and didn’t manage to find it online once I got home. So it’s sort of a growing trend.

]]> By: Randy https://www.comicsgirl.com/2010/05/05/book-of-the-month-persepolis/comment-page-1/#comment-19271 Fri, 07 May 2010 15:52:58 +0000 http://www.comicsgirl.com/?p=1589#comment-19271 It’s funny — the one time I had a conversation about this book, I was at a Superbowl party and while trying to shuffle the rest of my family out the door so the kids would get a vaguely reasonable night’s sleep, and a bevy of mothers was chatting in the hallway about books and Persepolis came up (also because, at that time, the animated feature was at the E Street Theatre downtown). I think my wife was shocked both that I had read something her friends had read and that her friends had read a graphic novel. :-P

Zahra’s Paradise is a webcomic that’s going to be collected ultimately and, while it has a different story to be sure, certainly has some of the same themes. Worth checking out…

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