Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

Descriere Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

The acclaimed author of The Authentics pens a big-hearted, epic love letter to the LGBTQ community about three friends falling in love and finding their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis. \n \nStonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time\n \nA book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.--Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue\n \nIt's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.\n \nReza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS.\n \nJudy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating.\n \nArt is Judy's best friend, their school's only out and proud teen. He'll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs.\n \nAs Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won't break Judy's heart--and destroy the most meaningful friendship he's ever known.\n \nThis is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.\n

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Balzer & Bray/harperteen

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9780062839367

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1

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