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Coming out (Sexual orientation) Fiction Family life Fiction Gay teenagers Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Iranian Americans Fiction Rome (Italy) Fiction Runaways Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction United States. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection Fiction Washington (D.C.) FictionAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: Cyrus Sham's is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AKBAhmadi, Arvin
Summary: Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel before an encounter with a U.S. Customs officer places his hard-won freedom at risk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMAhmadi, Arvin.
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Scott Ferdowsi's impromptu trip to a famous professor for advice about success turns into a summer of freedom that brings him answers in unexpected places"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018