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How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
4.0
If close your eyes just a little, you can see the sunset setting over the piazzale, you can taste the sweet notes of the wine, you smell the ocean breeze mixing with the delicious food and best of all you can feel Amir heart beat every step of the way.
Amir is Muslim and Iranian. Amir is gay.
These are both facts.
When his life is turned upside down by a class mate who threatens to out him to his family Amir is at a crossroads, let his life fall apart or run away. Amir chooses to run away but in doing so he discovers something he never thought possible. He discovers the real him. In Rome he meets a group of people, who are all gay he finds through this group acceptance.
I really enjoyed the way of this narrative, we not only follow Amir in a how we got here stance with flashbacks we follow his mum, dad and sister. How they find out where their son ran of to and why he ran. I like how we seen through all different perspectives and how messy the journey was. Not everything is easy and somethings are hard but sometimes you need to run through the quick sand in order to make it to the other side.
The reason this book wasn’t a 5 star read is because I find I wanted more of religious aspect it was pitched in a certain way and it does deliver I just wish it delivered more, Also the nipple story which I had been previously warned about was quite disturbing and all throughout the book I couldn’t get it out my head, I want to know if this story is fictitious!
Amir is Muslim and Iranian. Amir is gay.
These are both facts.
When his life is turned upside down by a class mate who threatens to out him to his family Amir is at a crossroads, let his life fall apart or run away. Amir chooses to run away but in doing so he discovers something he never thought possible. He discovers the real him. In Rome he meets a group of people, who are all gay he finds through this group acceptance.
I really enjoyed the way of this narrative, we not only follow Amir in a how we got here stance with flashbacks we follow his mum, dad and sister. How they find out where their son ran of to and why he ran. I like how we seen through all different perspectives and how messy the journey was. Not everything is easy and somethings are hard but sometimes you need to run through the quick sand in order to make it to the other side.
The reason this book wasn’t a 5 star read is because I find I wanted more of religious aspect it was pitched in a certain way and it does deliver I just wish it delivered more, Also the nipple story which I had been previously warned about was quite disturbing and all throughout the book I couldn’t get it out my head, I want to know if this story is fictitious!