Marjane Satrapi (זכרונה לברכה)

The author of the wonderful graphic novel Persepolis has died of sadness. And now I'm a bit heartbroken too. Farewell, Ms. Satrapi. I enjoyed your book, and many of the 10th graders I taught enjoyed the excerpts we covered in class. We studied it as the United States was bombing Iran, pointlessly replacing many awful leaders with equally awful leaders. I hope someday an Iranian democratic revolution succeeds in overthrowing the theocracy, but it will need to do so without American bombs raining destruction upon them. You can't feed the regime's narrative or prove them right. But I've meandered away from Ms. Satrapi, who lost the love of her life a year ago. I'm glad she got to experience such a profound and all-encompassing love, and I'm sorry that it ended far too early for her.