Magnificent Debut Novel!
This book honestly deserves five stars due to its intended audience (which isn’t me, an adult). If it were written for a full-fledged adult, I’d probably have given it four stars.
What an incredible, eye-opening journey into Iran and the mind of an American-Iranian adolescent with depression. This book is so perfect for high-schoolers. So real to life, in my opinion, and I’m a very harsh judge on what feels real-to-life in books and their dialogues.
I didn’t get a lot of the Star Trek references, but the fact that it didn’t make a difference to my understanding of Darioush - the protagonist’s - feelings, just goes to show how well this book was written.
Bravo to the author for this wonderful work. Thank you to the publishers for an advanced copy to read!
What an incredible, eye-opening journey into Iran and the mind of an American-Iranian adolescent with depression. This book is so perfect for high-schoolers. So real to life, in my opinion, and I’m a very harsh judge on what feels real-to-life in books and their dialogues.
I didn’t get a lot of the Star Trek references, but the fact that it didn’t make a difference to my understanding of Darioush - the protagonist’s - feelings, just goes to show how well this book was written.
Bravo to the author for this wonderful work. Thank you to the publishers for an advanced copy to read!