Persepolis is a very personal story; it almost feels wrong to rate it, but I will anyway because it's deserved. I think that graphic memoirs are so unique in how they can show you how people change over time directly, and it's just generally a very conducive medium for those kinds of stories. I personally know almost nothing about Iran nor it's multiple revolutions, so this book was quite informative in that sense as well. I think that the Middle East's conflicts are ones where we don't see the perspectives shown nearly as much as things like WW2, not that those shouldn't be shown, but that everyone deserves to have their voices heard and I'm glad this author has managed to accomplish that.