Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature. Her debut novel, ''

If You Could Be Mine ''If You Could Be Mine'' is a 2013 young adult novel by Sara Farizan. The book tells the story of Sahar, an Iranian teenage girl who is willing to go through sex reassignment surgery so she can marry her best friend, Nasrin. The book was received ...

'', won the Ferro-Grumley Award,"LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan"
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'', May 23, 2014. the

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and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014, and was named to the

American Library Association Rainbow List The ALA Rainbow List is an annual list of "books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender content, and which are aimed at youth, birth through age 18" produced by the American Library Association's (ALA's) Rainbow Project, which is r ...

as one of the year's best LGBT-themed books. Her other novels are ''Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel'', which was again named to the Rainbow List for 2015, and ''Here to Stay''.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''

'' (2013) * ''Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel'' (2014) * ''Here to Stay'' (2018) * ''Dead Flip'' (2022)

Short stories

* "Why I Learned to Cook" in ''Fresh Ink'', edited by Lamar Giles (2018) * "Take Me with U" in ''The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes, & Other Dauntless Girls'', edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018) * "The End of the World as We Know It" in ''All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages'', edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018) * "Side Work" in ''Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love'', edited by Caroline Tung Richmond and Elsie Chapman (2019)

References

21st-century American novelists American women novelists American people of Iranian descent Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winners American lesbian writers American LGBT novelists DC Comics people Living people Lesley University alumni 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-novelist-stub