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Persepolis 2

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Persepolis-2.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Jaimy Mann) Air Date 11/17/2004 Persepolis 2 Transcript One of the most important books to appear this fall for older teens and young adults is the second volume of Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis 2. This installment continues Ms. Satrapi’s story about growing […]

Persepolis

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Persepolis-The-Story-of-a-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/17/2003 Persepolis Transcript “I was born with religion,” Marjane Satrapi writes at the beginning of her amazing, heart-rending book, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Appearing with this statement of fact is a rough cartoon drawing of Satrapi as an infant in diapers, her eyes […]