Satrapi, Marjane

Presents a graphic novel in which the author shares stories of love, sex, and men told by her Iranian grandmother, mother, aunt, friends, and neighbors gathered for an afternoon tea.

The author presents a biographical graphic novel depicting the last days of her granduncle, Nassar Ali Khan, a famous musician in 1950s Iran.

Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author continues the story of her life, discussing her move from Iran to Vienna in 1984, her feelings of alienation in the foreign country, and her return home where she starts college, falls in love, and questions whether she can continue to live in the repressive society.