Meagan Kimberly reviews If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
Meagan Kimberly reviews If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
Childhood friends Sahar and Nasreen are desperately in love, but living in Tehran, their love is forbidden. Nasreen wants to lead the life her parents want for her, to marry a good man with a good job who can take care of her, even if it means she has to give up her childhood sweetheart. Sahar can’t lose Nasreen, so she considers transitioning into a man, as that is acceptable in their culture.…
tells the story of Sahar. Sahar lives in Iran and is in love with Nasrin, who is more than her best friend–but being public about it will get them both killed. Nasrin gets betrothed to Reza and Sahar is trying to find a way for her and Sahar to be together.
I received a gift card to the book store for my birthday last week, and this is my mini-haul. Also, Dimka the cat wanted to be a book model, so here she is!
Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan is currently
$1.99 at certain e-book retailers! If you want to read a coming out story of a closeted lesbian, this is for you. The author balanced a humorous tone while weaving a story that tend to be overwhelming, realistic—and too painful.
It would hit you in the heart. I’d recommend this book in a heartbeat.
Young Adult author Sara Farizan adds a fresh and necessary story with her debut novel If You Could Be Mine. In Iran, female teenager Sahar has known from a young age that she wants to marry her best friend, Nasrin. But although her feelings are reciprocated, the two cannot marry because they are both girls. In their country, homosexuality is considered a crime, and death can be one of the many…
I have to start out by saying that I love this title (and the cover is nice as well). Every time I would glance over at the title I’d think Right?What a great encapsulation of the lesbian high school experience. (I also had a Facebook friend comment on my Goodreads post that I had finished this book by saying that she thought this was a link to an advice column and was disappointed that she was…
Sara Farizan’s second novel, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, is a genuinely sweet story of high school queerness. It can definitely be categorized as a “quick read” – but perhaps that is just because once I started reading, I never wanted to put it down.
The story revolves around Leila, an Iranian American teenager attending a small private high school in Massachusetts. Leila has been…
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