Here to Stay is a painfully honest, funny, authentic story about growing up, speaking out, and fighting prejudice. But it’s not always easy to tell your enemies from your friends. Others make it clear they don’t want him or anybody who looks like him at their school.
He’s not ashamed of his Middle Eastern heritage he just doesn’t want to be a poster child for Islamophobia. In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret. Her upcoming novel Dead Flip is her favorite book she’s written. Bijan wants to pretend it never happened. She is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of the young adult novels Here to Stay, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, and the Lambda Literary award winning If You Could Be Mine, which was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time.
The administration says they’ll find and punish the culprit. If his name is Bijan Majidi, life is suddenly high fives in the hallways and invitations to exclusive parties-along with an anonymous photo sent by a school cyberbully that makes Bijan look like a terrorist. 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. What happens when a kid who’s flown under the radar for most of high school gets pulled off the bench to make the winning basket in a varsity playoff game?
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