To honor the 100th anniversary of co-education at Marquette University, the Manresa Project has chosen Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi as the text for the 2009 First Year Reading Program. Persepolis, an illustrated novel, details the author’s early years growing up in Iran, the country’s religious and political conflicts, and the one family’s sacrifices to ensure an education for their daughter.
The First Year Reading Program encourages all incoming first-year students to read a common text and discuss it with a small group of fellow students, led by a faculty member and student leader, during New Student Orientation in August. Persepolis is the eighth book chosen for the program and was preceded by The Chosen by Chaim Potok (2002), A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind (2003), Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (2004), A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines (2005), Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang (2006), Bombingham by Anthony Grooms (2007), and Run by Ann Patchett (2008).
For more information about First Year Reading Program, contact the Manresa Project
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