Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi

In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios

This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East is an increasingly necessary read in today's divisive world. Perfect for fans of Mindy Kaling and Trevor Noah's books.

Very funny but never flippant, Saedi mixes '90s pop culture references, adolescent angst and Iranian history into an intimate, informative narrative. --The New York Times

At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number.

Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being a teenager. She desperately wanted a green card, along with clear skin, her own car, and a boyfriend.

Americanized follows Sara's progress toward getting her green card, but that's only a portion of her experiences as an Iranian-American teenager. From discovering that her parents secretly divorced to facilitate her mother's green card application to learning how to tame her unibrow, Sara pivots gracefully from the terrifying prospect that she might be kicked out of the country at any time to the almost-as-terrifying possibility that she might be the only one of her friends without a date to the prom. This moving, often hilarious story is for anyone who has ever shared either fear.

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FOUR STARED REVIEWS

A must-read, vitally important memoir. . . . Poignant and often LOL funny, Americanized is utterly of the moment.--Bustle

Read Saedi's memoir to push out the poison.--Teen Vogue

A funny, poignant must read for the times we are living in today.--Pop Sugar

Sara Saedi was born in Tehran, Iran smack-dab in the middle of a war and an Islamic Revolution. As the story goes, she entered the world to the sounds of bombs exploding near the hospital. Though her memory of the day is a little fuzzy, the life and death stakes surrounding her birth helped prepare her for a writing career. Sara received a B.A. in Film and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley and began her career as a creative executive for ABC Daytime. In 2010, she left the company to pursue her dream of being a writer. She's since penned three TV movies for ABC Family, won a Daytime Emmy for What If..., a web series she wrote for ABC, and worked as a staff writer on the FOX sitcom The Goodwin Games. Most recently, she wrote a pilot for The Disney Channel and sold her debut YA novel Never Ever to Viking Children's Books for publication in summer 2016. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and her pug, Mabel.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781524717827
ISBN 10	1524717827
Title	Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
Author	Sara Saedi
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2019-03-26
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Nominated for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2020, Nominated for Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Master List 2019, Nominated for New York State Charlotte Award 2021, Nominated for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award 2019
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.