I read the first book a few years ago and loved it. I thought it gave some fascinating insight into the Iranian Revolution and Marjane was a very quirky and insightful girl. 

However, the rest of the story, after she moves to Austria, is uneven. There are fascinating episodes in her life but she also leaves a lot of gaps in her  life and some parts it just feels like you are listening to someone tell their life story without any clear point or overarching themes.  Every now and then, characters speak in philosophical argument, but it never goes any where. Part of the point, I suppose, is that Marjane is a complex person and her philosophy changes quite a bit but I had thought there might be a bit more consistency particularly as the nuts about theory don’t as much to the book. For example, in Vienna she reads a Russian intellectual and much later in the book his name comes back up but it’s never clear in-between what role his words played in her life or what was even unique about his philosophy. 

That being said, I love the first part and even in the rest, I laughed and cried. She’s a powerful writer when she’s on.