Her family embraces the overthrow of the shah's regime, but Marji realises that Iran is not changing for the better.
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Persepolis brings a lightness of touch to weighty topics, while the drawings capture precisely Marji's bewilderment at her rapidly changing world.
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At school, headscarves and veils transform Marji and her classmates into rows of Russian dolls, peeking timidly from behind each other's sloping shoulders.