2020 Audie AwardsÂź Finalist - Young Adult
Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time
""A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.ââMackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentlemanâs Guide to Vice and Virtue
Itâs 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.
Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. Heâs terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows heâs gay, but all he knows of gay life are the mediaâs images of men dying of AIDS.
Judy 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.
Art is Judyâs best friend, their schoolâs only out and proud teen. Heâll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs.
As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that wonât break Judyâs heartâand destroy the most meaningful friendship heâs ever known.
This 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.
Lias
2023-12-20
Ver good i love the story of it and the details i hope for a second book
Anna
2022-08-26
So moving and beautifully written. Perfectly read.