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After the family's return home from Iran, Darius gets a boyfriend, his dream job as an intern in a tea shop, and a spot on the school's soccer team.

There were times I felt the intricacies of tea connoisseurship and sports were taking over the story, but I still want to know how various relationships were going to develop further at the end. There wasn't really a cliffhanger, it just left me wanting the story to continue.

#coffeeandabook

Love poems. Rumi. Enough said.

#poetrymatters

I have been reading this month, although not commenting/reviewing much.

I even got a Bingo!

Here's February's #BookSpin Bingo board!

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I have no idea why I put this on hold because I‘m not much of a middle grade reader but this came in for me at the library and it sucked me in!

What a beautiful way to tell a story, the stream of consciousness approach worked so well. The lighter moments & poop stories helped break up the heavier aspects, which were told so well.

I can‘t say I really liked any of these poems. Saadi was okay.

4 ⭐️s
a stream-of-conscious narrative of a middle school immigrant from Iran living in Oklahoma. heartbreaking and raw, but also funny and gross and wholesome and mournful. this story will stay with me for a long time.

Loved this. Such a heartfelt and personal depiction of what it's like to be new, different, displaced. It felt real, though I don't know that works. It was humanizing and unconventional