![]() She is determined to find a way that she can be with Nasrin. Nasrin’s parents arrange her betrothal to a doctor doing his residency, starting a ticking clock for Sahar. They also might be gay-that is, they love each other and are attracted to one another, but in Iran this is illegal. ![]() Sahar and Nasrin are 17-year-old Iranian girls on the cusp of womanhood. Finally, it is a story about the outsize importance we place upon gender. It is a reminder that, in the face of incredible oppression, people always find a way to strive to be together, to hope, to have enough. ![]() Ultimately a tragedy of sorts, If You Could Be Mine is nevertheless filled with promises of new beginnings. ![]() Sara Farizan poses a thorny problem here and asks very real questions about the lengths to which one might go to be with one’s forbidden love. Do not let the slim form factor and thinness of this book fool you. ![]()
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