I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani Paperback Book 9780241514740

A triumph tender and gutwrenching a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery GuardianI will be thinking about these characters for the rest of my life Kaveh Akbar author of Martyr A searing sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an IranianAmerican familyThree young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize They return to the Valley months later spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways Under the dazzling light of the California sun our protagonist the youngest brother begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his fathers violence a queer adolescence marked by a shy secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court and his everchanging status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium Lyrical and openhearted I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart and a boy emerging from its ashesLifeaffirming Khabushani is a talented writer Sunday TimesExquisite heartbreaking incredibly beautiful Caleb Azumah Nelson author of Open Water and Small Worlds