I Will Greet the Sun Again

“[A] masterful debut . . . a novel of survival and longing and love and in many ways a modern portrait of an artist as a young man . . . a book written for us we Iranian Americans whom you don’t often hear about.”—Porochista Khakpour The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)“A triumph . . . a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery.”—Dina Nayeri The Guardian. Winner of the Alex Award from the American Library Association • Finalist for the California Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award • Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award . An Amerie’s Book Club Pick • A Phenomenal Book Club Pick . Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers all K wants is to be “a boy from L.A.” all American. But K—the youngest named after a Persian king—knows there’s something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his closest friend Johnny a longing that he can’t share with anyone.. At home K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the dutiful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in the United States. He tries to make his mother proud live up to her ideal of a son. On Friday nights K attends prayers at the local mosque with Baba whose violent affections distort K’s understanding of what it means to be a man and how to love.. When Baba takes the three brothers from their mother back to Iran K finds himself in an ancestral home he barely knows. Returning to the Valley months later K must piece together who he is in a world that now feels as foreign to him as the one he left behind.. A stunning tender novel of identity and belonging I Will Greet the Sun Again tells the story of a young man lost in his own family his own country and his own skin. Staring down the brutality of being a queer kid and a Muslim in America Khashayar J. Khabushani transforms personal and national pain into an unforgettable and beautifully rendered exploration of youth love family—and the stories that make us who we are.