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A good country : a novel / Laleh Khadivi.

by Khadivi, Laleh.

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Bloomsbury USA, 2017.

Iranian American teenagers -- Fiction.

Iranian Americans -- Fiction.

Radicalization -- Fiction.

Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction.

9781632865847 (hc.)

239 p. ; 25 cm.

"Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict father comes easily. But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and two friends are making their way to Syria to join in the fight."--From publisher.

Bildungsromans.

Literary fiction.

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