I Will Greet the Sun Again

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A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium. Lyrical and open-hearted, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes.

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Khashayar J. Khabushani's debut novel, devoted to adolescence in all its glory and devastation, is a marvel. Reading it, I felt the thrill and joy of encountering a major writer at the beginning of his career -- Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING
A work of meticulous care and genuine candor, one that shies away from no earthly event, yet spiritually soars. To read it is to experience the contradictions of the weighty and the exalted, to witness a self forged by both brutality and love. Khabushani is a poetic visionary, as generous as he is brave -- Heidi Julavits, author of THE FOLDED CLOCK and THE VANISHERS
Khashayar J. Khabushani has taken a coming-of-age story and flooded it with light. His sentences are as delicate as ripe berries, yet the voice manages to be intrepid, determined and clear. This is a gorgeous and wrenching debut from a writer I'll be following for many years to come -- Catherine Lacey, author of NOBODY IS EVER MISSING
Why wasn't Khabushani's I Will Greet the Sun Again around when I was ten, when I was twenty This is a book I've dreamt of reading my whole life. How to mourn the loss of a country that has become unrecognizable, while living across the world in one that doesn't recognize you How to dismantle the brutal ways men teach each other to (not) love other men What to do with the love you still feel, however guiltily, for those who treated you violently I wish I'd had Khabushani's clarified language for these questions to guide me my whole life. Better late than never, Khashayar J. Khabushani. I am jealous of the generation of people who will grow up in a world with I Will Greet the Sun Again in it. I will be thinking about these characters for the rest of my life -- Kaveh Akbar, author of PILGRIM BELL

Author Bio

Khashayar J. Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran, and was later raised in the United States. He graduated from the MFA Creative Writing programme at Columbia University and currently lives in LA. I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is his first novel.