I Will Greet the Sun Again

✍ Scribed by Khashayar J. Khabushani

• Book ID: 111704205
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 659 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593243312

✦ Synopsis

A poetic, open-hearted debut about an Iranian American boy searching for his place in the world --"teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating" (Justin Torres, author of We the Animals)
__
" Call me K, because unlike Baba and Maman I was born right here and like my brothers I want to be known as a boy from L.A., since that's the truth."
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be "a boy from L.A.," all American. But K--the youngest, named after a Persian king--knows there's something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his closest friend, Johnny, a longing that he can't share with anyone.
At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the dutiful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in the United States. He tries to make his mother proud, live up to her ideal of a son....