Five Feet Apart meets Kate in Waiting in this timely story of two best friends navigating the complexities of friendship while their world is turned upside down by a global pandemic, from the author of Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card.
Sara Saedi Libri
Sara Saedi crea narrazioni avvincenti che attingono alla sua vita e alle sue esperienze di sradicamento culturale. La sua scrittura è acuta e coinvolgente, esplorando spesso temi di identità, esilio e ricerca di appartenenza. Attraverso la sua voce unica, offre ai lettori uno sguardo profondo su cosa significhi essere un estraneo mentre si costruisce una nuova vita. Il suo lavoro trasmette resilienza e forza di fronte alle avversità.
At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn’t learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn’t because she didn’t have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn’t keep her from being a teenager. She desperately wanted a green card, along with clear skin, her own car, and a boyfriend. Americanized follows Sara’s progress toward getting her green card, but that’s only a portion of her experiences as an Iranian-“American” teenager. From discovering that her parents secretly divorced to facilitate her mother’s green card application to learning how to tame her unibrow, Sara pivots from the terrifying prospect that she might be kicked out of the country at any time to the almost-as-terrifying possibility that she might be the only one of her friends without a date to the prom.
