Overview: Persepolis, By Marjane Satrapi The New York Instances
What occurs when a physician suddenly and unexpectedly becomes a patient? That’s what happened to critical care physician Rana Awdish. When Awdish was seven months pregnant, a benign tumor in her liver ruptured, causing enormous blood loss, multi-organ failure, a stroke, and a miscarriage. I could in no way sustain an expedient “I” for more than a paragraph. (Do you consider that writers speak “as themselves”? No such selves exist.) Playing the Dying Man (Enter left. Exit trapdoor) gives me…