If You Could Be Mine

In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin's parents announce their daughter's arranged marriage and Sahar proposes a drastic solution.

About the author

Sara Farizan is an Iranian American writer and ardent basketball fan who was born in and lives near Boston. The award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine and Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, she has an MFA from Lesley University and a BA in film and media studies from American University. Here to Stay is her third novel.

Summary

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
One of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best YA Novels
A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Title
A Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth 2013
A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2013

This Forbidden Romance Could Cost Them Their Lives

Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed. So they carry on in secret until Nasrin’s parents suddenly announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution: homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. Sahar will never be able to love Nasrin in the body she wants to be loved in without risking their lives, but is saving their love worth sacrificing her true self?

 

Foreword

In Iran, it’s a crime punishable by death to be gay. Sex reassignment surgery, however, is considered a way to fix a “mistake.” Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. But when Nasrin’s parents announce that her arranged marriage will be in a matter of months, Sahar must decide the lengths she’ll go to for love.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Farizan, Farizan Sara
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9781616204556
• ISBN: 978-1-61620-455-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 180 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / Middle East, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Middle East, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage), People & places (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQ+, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples