Awards

• Commended for Stonewall Book Award (Children/Young Adult) 2020

Overview

""A love letter to queerness, self-expression, and individuality (also Madonna) that never shies away from the ever-present fear within the queer community of late '80s New York, Like a Love Story made me feel so full--of hope, love, courage, pride, and awe for the many people who fought for love and self-expression in the face of discrimination, cruelty, and death. A 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 It's 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. 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. 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 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. As 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. 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.

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"""A beautifully written exploration of first love's fragility in the face of a world full of hate and fear...Nazemian's latest will remind readers that first love is isolating and unifying, exhilarating and terrifying, and every paradox in between."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""The intense and nuanced emotions evoked by the characters' journeys help to give this powerful novel by Nazemian a timeless relevance."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Depicts the social and political climate of the time in vivid detail, capturing the dichotomy between fear and love and, finally, acceptance...A truly lovely romance to cherish. Deeply moving."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"""

A beautifully written exploration of first love's fragility in the face of a world full of hate and fear...Nazemian's latest will remind readers that first love is isolating and unifying, exhilarating and terrifying, and every paradox in between. -- Booklist (starred review) The intense and nuanced emotions evoked by the characters' journeys help to give this powerful novel by Nazemian a timeless relevance. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Depicts the social and political climate of the time in vivid detail, capturing the dichotomy between fear and love and, finally, acceptance...A truly lovely romance to cherish. Deeply moving. -- Kirkus Reviews

Depicts the social and political climate of the time in vivid detail, capturing the dichotomy between fear and love and, finally, acceptance...A truly lovely romance to cherish. Deeply moving. -- Kirkus Reviews

Author Information

Abdi Nazemian is the author of The Authentics. His novel The Walk-In Closet won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction. His screenwriting credits include the films The Artist's Wife, The Quiet, and Menendez: Blood Brothers, as well as the NBC television series The Village. He has been an executive producer and associate producer on numerous films, including Call Me by Your Name, Little Woods, The House of Tomorrow, and Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. He lives in Los Angeles with his fiancé and two children. Find him online at www.abdaddy.com. Lauren Ambrose is a film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in New York, mainly in off-Broadway productions, and on television. She is most well-known for Can't Hardly Wait and Six Feet Under, for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy. Michael Crouch is an actor based in New York City. His audiobook narration has won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, and Best of the Year accolades from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, video games, and the animé series Pokémon XY and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor with numerous credits in stage, film, commercials, and television, in addition to his over one hundred recorded audiobooks. An Audie Award nominee, he has garnered many awards for his narrations, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and various Best of the Year lists.

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