Lane Tech High School book club discusses "Persepolis" during club meeting after class in Chicago on March 20, 2013.
Lane Tech High School book club discusses "Persepolis" during club meeting after class in Chicago on March 20, 2013. (Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
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CHICAGO — Thirteen years ago, at Lane Tech College Prep High School on Addison Street, a school administrator approached an English teacher and told her that he needed all of her copies of “Persepolis,” the widely beloved, best-selling 2000 graphic novel from Marjane Satrapi about her childhood under the oppressive regime in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. The teacher didn’t understand the ...
