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Only this beautiful moment / Abdi Nazemian.

Title:

Only this beautiful moment

Author:

Nazemian, Abdi

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

390 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edtion.

ISBN:

9780063039377

Production / Publication Information:

New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]

Summary:

"2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. And even worse--he's forced to live with the American grandmother he never knew existed. 1939. Bobby, the son of a calculating Hollywood stage mother, lands a coveted MGM studio contract. But the fairy-tale world of glamour he's thrust into has a dark side. Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this tale of intergenerational trauma and love is an ode to the fragile bonds of family, the hidden secrets of history, and all the beautiful moments that make us who we are today."--Provided by publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Social problem fiction.

Gay fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Geographic Term:

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Tehran (Iran) -- Juvenile fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.

Tehran (Iran) -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Gay teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.

Iranian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction.

Teenagers -- Fiction.

Gay people -- Fiction.

Iranian Americans -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Young adult fiction.

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Summary

Stonewall Book Award Winner * A Best Book of the Year from the Guardian, ALA Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage

From the award-winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and Darius the Great Is Not Okay.

2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself.

1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. And even worse--he's forced to live with the American grandmother he never knew existed.

1939. Bobby, the son of a calculating Hollywood stage mother, lands a coveted MGM studio contract. But the fairy-tale world of glamour he's thrust into has a dark side.

Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this tale of intergenerational trauma and love is an ode to the fragile bonds of family, the hidden secrets of history, and all the beautiful moments that make us who we are today.

A CCBC 2024 Choices for the Fiction for Young Adult category!

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Nazemian (The Chandler Legacies) combines myriad interconnected narratives spanning three generations of an Iranian family in this ambitious read. In 2019, 17-year-old Mahmoud Jafarzadeh, who is queer, is visiting Tehran from Los Angeles for the first time to spend time with grandfather Baba, who is terminally ill. When Moud confides his complicated feelings about his family and culture to his white boyfriend Shane, he claims that Moud is "defending a regime that wants you dead." In a 1978-set plotline occurring during the Iranian Revolution, 18-year-old student activist Saeed, Moud's father, falls for Shirin, a fellow protestor. But Saeed's parents, fearful for his life, send him to America to complete his education away from the tumult. And in 1939 Hollywood, Moud's Baba, 17-year-old Bobby, yearns to tell his Mexican American best friend Vicente that he loves him. The day he plucks up the courage, Bobby's overbearing stage mother sweeps him away for a once-in-a-lifetime film opportunity that drastically changes the course of his life. Via the trio's intimately realized alternating perspectives, Nazemian paints a transcendent and complex portrait of generational grief and self-discovery, expertly interweaving the boys' individual experiences with homophobia, racism, and U.S.-Iranian relations to deliver a touching family drama. Ages 13--up. (May)

Kirkus Review

A textured novel that uncovers secrets spanning three generations of an Iranian family. It's 2019. Seventeen-year-old Moud Jafarzadeh is removing all traces of gayness from his social media before he leaves Los Angeles for Tehran. He'll be visiting Iran with his dad, Saeed, to spend time with Baba, his terminally ill grandfather. As they're visiting a country where gay people are confronted with violence or worse, this trip is a source of conflict between Moud and Shane, his White boyfriend. The perspective then shifts to that of 18-year-old Saeed Jafarzadeh in 1978, during the Iranian revolution. He's going to a student protest, a risky activity he conceals from his parents. It's there Saeed meets and starts to fall for beautiful Shirin, a fellow protester. The novel then flashes back to 1939. In Los Angeles, 17-year-old Babak "Bobby" Jafarzadeh, Moud's grandfather, desperately wants to tell Vicente, his Mexican American best friend, that he loves him. Today was supposed to be the day--until Mother picked Bobby up from school and whisked him away for a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screen test, his ticket to becoming a movie star and fulfilling her own disappointed dreams. The Jafarzadeh men's narratives alternate, intriguingly unveiling family secrets. Nazemian expertly bridges the past and the present, exploring racism, homophobia, and relations between the United States and Iran along the way. His elegant prose propels this historically resonant and culturally nuanced family drama. A stunning intergenerational coming-of-age story. (author's note) (Fiction. 14-18) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

When Moud flies from Los Angeles to Tehran to visit his dying grandfather, it's a welcome reprieve from his pop-culture-saturated day-to-day. Unfortunately, he's traveling with his father, Saeed, with whom he shares a strained relationship stemming from the death of Moud's mother and Moud coming out as gay. He has always taken his father's coldness as a culturally derived prejudice, which he expects to see reflected in Iran. The truth reveals itself to be far more muddled as Moud explores the secret underground enjoyed by Tehran's gay youth and is shocked to learn how his grandfather's own homosexuality has shaped the fates of his father and himself. This story, told in three points of view from three generations of the same family, is nothing short of masterful. Moud and his family are multifaceted and exquisitely crafted, and the setting of Tehran is suffused with sumptuous food, dance, and poetry. The subject of prejudice against LGBTQ+ people in both America and Iran is woven into all three characters' stories, but Nazemian takes pains to highlight the courage borne by individuals in the face of oppressive regimes, holding them up as exemplars. This is the kind of story that young-adult literature is made for: a story of the heart, of the very real human struggles young people face and that adults try to--but never truly--forget.