Description: By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book's stories lift the veil off the real, private lives of Iranian women and--perfectly captured in Satrapi's simple, beguiling drawings--reveal the connections between women everywhere.
Review Quotes: "Tantalizing ... Bold, bewitchingly humorous and politically astute ... A cheeky and knowing peek at the loves, sexual histories and marital secrets of ... these beautiful and seductive women."
--Elle
--Los Angeles Times "Humorous and bawdy ... An amusing portrayal of independent women taking life in stride."
--The Village Voice "Embroideries is as funny, opinionated, controversial and surprising as any good comic or conversation should be."
--Time.com "Subversive ... Satrapi's book is a mocking rebuke to the cult of chastity, and a statement about the way human passions find their way around the most determined repression."
--Salon "By turns bawdy and heartbreaking ... Of all Satrapi's books, Embroideries most effectively tears down the divide between Iranian and American culture, showing how women everywhere are similar."
--The Capital Times (Madison)