{"product_id":"i-will-greet-the-sun-again-a-novel","title":"I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] masterful debut . . . a novel of survival and longing and love, and in many ways a modern portrait of an artist as a young man . . . a book written for us, we Iranian Americans whom you don’t often hear about.”—Porochista Khakpour, The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A triumph . . . a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery.”—Dina Nayeri, The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Alex Award from the American Library Association • Finalist for the California Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award • Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Amerie’s Book Club Pick • A Phenomenal Book Club Pick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be “a boy from L.A.,” all American. But K—the youngest, named after a Persian king—knows there’s something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his closest friend, Johnny, a longing that he can’t share with anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the dutiful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in the United States. He tries to make his mother proud, live up to her ideal of a son. On Friday nights, K attends prayers at the local mosque with Baba, whose violent affections distort K’s understanding of what it means to be a man and how to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Baba takes the three brothers from their mother back to Iran, K finds himself in an ancestral home he barely knows. Returning to the Valley months later, K must piece together who he is, in a world that now feels as foreign to him as the one he left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stunning, tender novel of identity and belonging, I Will Greet the Sun Again tells the story of a young man lost in his own family, his own country, and his own skin. Staring down the brutality of being a queer kid and a Muslim in America, Khashayar J. Khabushani transforms personal and national pain into an unforgettable and beautifully rendered exploration of youth, love, family—and the stories that make us who we are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hogarth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49847475470615,"sku":"9780593243329","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8906\/7543\/files\/9780593243329.jpg?v=1731871273","url":"https:\/\/www.takealookbooks.com\/products\/i-will-greet-the-sun-again-a-novel","provider":"Take a Look Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}