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Sara Farizan is an Iranian American writer and ardent basketball fan who was born in and lives near Boston. The award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine and Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, she has an MFA from Lesley University and a BA in film and media studies from American University. Here to Stay is her third novel.
A Booklist Top 10 Sports Book for Youth, 2018 A powerful YA novel about identity and prejudice. --Entertainment Weekly With humor, power, smarts, and honesty, Farizan has written a conversation-starter. --The Boston Globe Here to Stay tackles serious, timely issues with grace, humor, and urgency--as the best YA novels do. --HelloGiggles The novel effortlessly tackles several important societal issues, keeping them in the foreground without detracting from the main focus: Bijan's entertaining internal color commentary that reveals his thought processes. The resulting is an engaging page-turner. Powerful. --Kirkus Reviews Islamophobia, racism, homo- and heterosexuality, toxic masculinity, offensive sports mascots, activism, friendship, immigration, school politics, gun rights, and a splash of Iranian history make this about a lot more than high-school sports. --Booklist Farizan portrays the richness and warmth of the Persian culture of Bijan's proud mother. A touching subplot explores the romance and high school politics of a budding lesbian relationship. Recommended for all high school collections. --School Library Journal Here to Stay is refreshingly frank, revealing the unsettling truth that the very social stigmas we pretend we have conquered still exist. --The Salisbury Post
