Recently Finished Reading 070505

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - a comic book in the style of Maus where an Iranian woman tells of her life growing up during the Iranian Cultural Revolution and beyond.

Violation by Darian North - overall a pretty simple tale of a woman whose past involves a brutal rape which led to her becoming pregnant and comatose for an extended period of time. In the present time her son, the product of that past horror, is oblivious to the real story and yet is trying to find out more. Fueled by external forces, the boy takes off from their home in the woods of Northern Cali - to Long Island and straight into the heart of his mother's past. An ex-cop (yes yes, of course it is cliched but it still works...) gets into the mix and a nice little web of intrigue and deception and horrifying revelations is spun by North in such a way as to have kept me quite page-bound for the week or so that it took me to finish the book (mind you this is reading about an hr a day or so).