Join us on Tuesday, August 1st at 7pm PT when Khashayar J. Khabushani celebrates the release of his debut novel, I Will Greet the Sun Again, with Jonathan Escoffery at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for I Will Greet the Sun Again
"A moving debut, teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating. Khashayar J. Khabushani's voice keens and surprises, and at the center of the book we find K, tenderhearted, spirit glowing like a beacon."--Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"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
"Why wasn't I Will Greet the Sun Again around when I was ten, when I was twenty? This is a book I've dreamed of reading 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 forever."--Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell
About I Will Greet the Sun Again
A poetic, open-hearted debut about an Iranian American boy searching for his place in the world--"exquisite, heartbreaking, incredibly beautiful" (Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water).
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be "a boy from LA", all American. But K - the youngest, named after a Persian king - knows there's something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his closest friend, Johnny, a longing that he can't share with anyone around him.
At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the dutiful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in the United States. He tries to make his mother proud, live up to her ideal of a son. On Friday nights, K attends prayers at the local mosque with Baba, whose violent affections distort K's understanding of what it means to be a man and how to love.
When Baba takes the three brothers from their mother back to Iran, K finds himself in an ancestral home he barely knows. Returning to the Valley months later, K must piece together who he is, in a world that now feels as foreign to him as the one he left behind.
A stunning, tender novel of identity and belonging, I Will Greet the Sun Again tells the story of a young man lost in his own family, his own country, and his own skin. Staring down the brutality of being a queer kid and a Muslim in America, Khashayar J. Khabushani transforms personal and national pain into an unforgettable and beautifully rendered exploration of youth, love, family--and the stories that make us who we are.
About Khashayar J. Khabushani
Khashayar J. Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, California, in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran before returning to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and prior to completing his MFA at Columbia University, he worked as a middle school teacher. This is his first novel.
About Jonathan Escoffery
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times and Booklist Editor's Choice, an IndieNext Pick, and an International Bestseller. If I Survive You was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize For Debut Short Story Collection, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance's Golden Poppy Award. If I Survive You was named a 'best' book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, People, TIME, Oprah Daily, NPR, Literary Hub, The New Yorker, L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Jonathan is the recipient of American Short Fiction's 2023 Constellation Award for a Story Collection, The Paris Review's 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors, and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Oprah Daily, Electric Literature, Zyzzyva, American Short Fiction, AGNI, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Creative Writing MFA Program and was a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for I Will Greet the Sun Again
"A moving debut, teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating. Khashayar J. Khabushani's voice keens and surprises, and at the center of the book we find K, tenderhearted, spirit glowing like a beacon."--Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"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
"Why wasn't I Will Greet the Sun Again around when I was ten, when I was twenty? This is a book I've dreamed of reading 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 forever."--Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell
About I Will Greet the Sun Again
A poetic, open-hearted debut about an Iranian American boy searching for his place in the world--"exquisite, heartbreaking, incredibly beautiful" (Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water).
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be "a boy from LA", all American. But K - the youngest, named after a Persian king - knows there's something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his closest friend, Johnny, a longing that he can't share with anyone around him.
At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the dutiful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in the United States. He tries to make his mother proud, live up to her ideal of a son. On Friday nights, K attends prayers at the local mosque with Baba, whose violent affections distort K's understanding of what it means to be a man and how to love.
When Baba takes the three brothers from their mother back to Iran, K finds himself in an ancestral home he barely knows. Returning to the Valley months later, K must piece together who he is, in a world that now feels as foreign to him as the one he left behind.
A stunning, tender novel of identity and belonging, I Will Greet the Sun Again tells the story of a young man lost in his own family, his own country, and his own skin. Staring down the brutality of being a queer kid and a Muslim in America, Khashayar J. Khabushani transforms personal and national pain into an unforgettable and beautifully rendered exploration of youth, love, family--and the stories that make us who we are.
About Khashayar J. Khabushani
Khashayar J. Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, California, in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran before returning to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and prior to completing his MFA at Columbia University, he worked as a middle school teacher. This is his first novel.
About Jonathan Escoffery
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times and Booklist Editor's Choice, an IndieNext Pick, and an International Bestseller. If I Survive You was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize For Debut Short Story Collection, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance's Golden Poppy Award. If I Survive You was named a 'best' book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, People, TIME, Oprah Daily, NPR, Literary Hub, The New Yorker, L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Jonathan is the recipient of American Short Fiction's 2023 Constellation Award for a Story Collection, The Paris Review's 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors, and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Oprah Daily, Electric Literature, Zyzzyva, American Short Fiction, AGNI, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Creative Writing MFA Program and was a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Join us on Tuesday, August 1st at 7pm PT when Khashayar J. Khabushani celebrates the release of his debut novel, I Will Greet the Sun Again, with Jonathan Escoffery at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for I Will Greet the Sun Again
"A moving debut, teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating. Khashayar J. Khabushani's voice keens and surprises, and at the center of the book we find K, tenderhearted, spirit glowing like a beacon."--Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"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
"Why wasn't I Will Greet the Sun Again around when I was ten, when I was twenty? This is a book I've dreamed of reading 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 forever."--Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell
About I Will Greet the Sun Again
A poetic, open-hearted debut about an Iranian American boy searching for his place in the world--"exquisite, heartbreaking, incredibly beautiful" (Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water).
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be "a boy from LA", all American. But K - the youngest, named after a Persian king - knows there's something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his closest friend, Johnny, a longing that he can't share with anyone around him.
At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the dutiful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in the United States. He tries to make his mother proud, live up to her ideal of a son. On Friday nights, K attends prayers at the local mosque with Baba, whose violent affections distort K's understanding of what it means to be a man and how to love.
When Baba takes the three brothers from their mother back to Iran, K finds himself in an ancestral home he barely knows. Returning to the Valley months later, K must piece together who he is, in a world that now feels as foreign to him as the one he left behind.
A stunning, tender novel of identity and belonging, I Will Greet the Sun Again tells the story of a young man lost in his own family, his own country, and his own skin. Staring down the brutality of being a queer kid and a Muslim in America, Khashayar J. Khabushani transforms personal and national pain into an unforgettable and beautifully rendered exploration of youth, love, family--and the stories that make us who we are.
About Khashayar J. Khabushani
Khashayar J. Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, California, in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran before returning to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and prior to completing his MFA at Columbia University, he worked as a middle school teacher. This is his first novel.
About Jonathan Escoffery
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times and Booklist Editor's Choice, an IndieNext Pick, and an International Bestseller. If I Survive You was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize For Debut Short Story Collection, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance's Golden Poppy Award. If I Survive You was named a 'best' book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, People, TIME, Oprah Daily, NPR, Literary Hub, The New Yorker, L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Jonathan is the recipient of American Short Fiction's 2023 Constellation Award for a Story Collection, The Paris Review's 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors, and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Oprah Daily, Electric Literature, Zyzzyva, American Short Fiction, AGNI, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Creative Writing MFA Program and was a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for I Will Greet the Sun Again
"A moving debut, teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating. Khashayar J. Khabushani's voice keens and surprises, and at the center of the book we find K, tenderhearted, spirit glowing like a beacon."--Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"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
"Why wasn't I Will Greet the Sun Again around when I was ten, when I was twenty? This is a book I've dreamed of reading 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 forever."--Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell
About I Will Greet the Sun Again
A poetic, open-hearted debut about an Iranian American boy searching for his place in the world--"exquisite, heartbreaking, incredibly beautiful" (Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water).
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his two brothers, all K wants is to be "a boy from LA", all American. But K - the youngest, named after a Persian king - knows there's something different about himself. Like the way he feels about his closest friend, Johnny, a longing that he can't share with anyone around him.
At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the dutiful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in the United States. He tries to make his mother proud, live up to her ideal of a son. On Friday nights, K attends prayers at the local mosque with Baba, whose violent affections distort K's understanding of what it means to be a man and how to love.
When Baba takes the three brothers from their mother back to Iran, K finds himself in an ancestral home he barely knows. Returning to the Valley months later, K must piece together who he is, in a world that now feels as foreign to him as the one he left behind.
A stunning, tender novel of identity and belonging, I Will Greet the Sun Again tells the story of a young man lost in his own family, his own country, and his own skin. Staring down the brutality of being a queer kid and a Muslim in America, Khashayar J. Khabushani transforms personal and national pain into an unforgettable and beautifully rendered exploration of youth, love, family--and the stories that make us who we are.
About Khashayar J. Khabushani
Khashayar J. Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, California, in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran before returning to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and prior to completing his MFA at Columbia University, he worked as a middle school teacher. This is his first novel.
About Jonathan Escoffery
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times and Booklist Editor's Choice, an IndieNext Pick, and an International Bestseller. If I Survive You was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize For Debut Short Story Collection, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance's Golden Poppy Award. If I Survive You was named a 'best' book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, People, TIME, Oprah Daily, NPR, Literary Hub, The New Yorker, L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Jonathan is the recipient of American Short Fiction's 2023 Constellation Award for a Story Collection, The Paris Review's 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors, and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Oprah Daily, Electric Literature, Zyzzyva, American Short Fiction, AGNI, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Creative Writing MFA Program and was a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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