If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

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? Sharp and moving. --The Boston Globe Beautifully crafted . . . Offers timely insight into the struggles of those who must be their authentic selves no matter where they live. --Ms. Magazine Accomplished and compassionate. --Booklist, starred reviewWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction One of Rolling Stone's 40 Best YA Novels A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Title

Sara Farizan was born in Massachusetts, the daughter of Iranian immigrants. She has an MFA from Lesley University and a BA from American University in film and media studies. Sara grew up in a private high school where she felt unusual not only because of her ethnicity, but also because of her romantic interest in girls, her lack of enthusiasm for science and math, and her passion of writing plays and short stories. So, in college, she came out in the closet, learned that math and physics weren't so bad (but weren't for her), and decided to pursue a career as a writer. Sara has worked as a waitress, a comic book/record store employee, an art magazine blogger, a marketing temp, and an after-school teacher, but she has always been a writer first and foremost.

Sara lives in the Boston area, enjoys Kurosawa films, eighties R&B, and graphic novels, and believes that all children are wonderful. She is the bestselling author of Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel and If You Could Be Mine.

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ISBN 13	9781616202514
ISBN 10	1616202513
Title	If You Could Be Mine
Author	Sara Farizan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Algonquin Young Readers
Year published	2013-08-20
Number of pages	248
Prizes	Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Children/Young Adult) 2014, Winner of Triangle Awards (Debut Fiction) 2014, Winner of Triangle Awards (Lgbt Fiction) 2014
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