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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Khadivi, Laleh, author.     Subjects     Iranian American teenagers -- Fiction.     Iranian Americans -- Fiction.     Radicalization -- Fiction.     Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction.     Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Khadivi, Laleh, author.       by title:      A good country : a n...         MARC Display

A good country : a novel / Laleh Khadivi. by Khadivi, Laleh, author. New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2017. Subjects Iranian American teenagers -- Fiction.   Iranian Americans -- Fiction.   Radicalization -- Fiction.   Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction.   Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781632865847 (hardback) : 163286584X (hardback) Description:  239 pages ; 25 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict father comes easily. But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and two friends are making their way to Syria to join in the fight. Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all souls: Does a person decide how to live, or is their life decided for them? "--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Nanakuli Public Library Adult Fiction Khadivi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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