Ryan, Brooke, and professional actor/writer/friend of the pod Lilly Heidari crack open the history books AND the comic books as they read Marjane Satrapi's adaptation of her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis! We talk about history, the life of a person in the middle of historic events, the power of one's own culture, expatriation, and the bizarre fun of being assigned comic books in college. This one has it all!


FILMS DISCUSSED:
Persepolis (2007, dir. Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
 
Real World Recs
Lilly: 'Look: Poems' by Solmaz Sharif
Brooke:Labubu dolls
Ryan: The Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World

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