Embroideries Ian McGinty ” that looks back on

” that looks back on her childhood forty years later

like Madame Bovary

but with the style and serial nature of even older-school Sunday newspaper comics strips

but done by posers

Embroideries Ian McGinty ” that looks back onBy Marjane Satrapi. Published by Pantheon. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W, 2006. From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes a gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Bold, bewitchingly humorous and politically astute. Elle Embroideries gathers together Marjanes toughtalking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking.