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Darcey Rosenblatt is a debut author. She's a co-founder of the Better Books Workshop for middle-grade and young adult writers, and loves dancing and painting. She lives in San Francisco.
In Rosenblatt's ambitious debut novel, Reza, a 12-year-old Iranian boy, clings to friendship and his love of music as the Iran-Iraq War tears his world apart. . . . Reza's story is compelling . . . . --Kirkus Reviews This hard-hitting first novel opens in Iran in 1982 during the Ayatollah Khomeini's oppressive rule and that nation's war with Iraq. . . . The larger political context becomes personal when a devastating public rejection of Reza and his fellow survivors by Iran leaves the boys without a country. . . . [T]he resilience of Rosenblatt's protagonist strikes a strong chord. --Publishers Weekly
