After some time in Austria, we continue to walk with Marjane as a teen and young adult as she returns to Iran and finds that some things have changed...and some have stayed the same.

Things I want to remember:
-the way she "broke character" and spoke to the reader was so seamless. Really beautiful.
-the way she writes about people she didn't like was perfect - not too mean - just the basic truth.
-the way she speaks about her mother going gray after not seeing her for some time.

Marjane is just as endearing as an adult as she was as a child. We can connect to the dissonance she feels being "from" multiple places, the love heartaches, the back and forth with family. I especially connected to the fact that she was an only child (as an only child myself).

I love that both books end at the airport, and that she rips our hearts out with the disaster at the end. This is such a well-done book. I'm looking forward to reading more by Satrapi!