This is really such an accessible look at living in Iran during the war in the 1980s, which honestly not a lot of YA lit really covers. It's a realtively simple art style, but there are panels that really get the emotions across. Marjane feels a lot of things, and props to her parents for encouraging the freedom she desired. 

There are parts of this that are also hard to read, given the subject matter. It would make great required reading for a social studies class in high school. It will definitely make for good discussion tonight at our book club.