They also might be gay-that is, they love each other and are attracted to one another, but in Iran this is illegal. Sahar and Nasrin are 17-year-old Iranian girls on the cusp of womanhood. Finally, it is a story about the outsize importance we place upon gender. It is a reminder that, in the face of incredible oppression, people always find a way to strive to be together, to hope, to have enough. Ultimately a tragedy of sorts, If You Could Be Mine is nevertheless filled with promises of new beginnings.
Sara Farizan poses a thorny problem here and asks very real questions about the lengths to which one might go to be with one’s forbidden love.
But the sins of her father can become an obsession, and, as she’s learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away.Do not let the slim form factor and thinness of this book fool you. Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up-especially the determined Xander Keaton. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods.
She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.” “She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar.
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