Here to Stay, Sara Farizan
Here to Stay, Sara Farizan
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Here to Stay

Author: Sara Farizan

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/18/2018

Synopsis

For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, everything changes in an instant. But not everyone is happy that Bijan is the man of the hour: an anonymous cyberbully sends the entire school a picture of Bijan photoshopped to look like a terrorist. His mother is horrified, and the school administration is outraged. They promise to find and punish the culprit. All Bijan wants is to pretend it never happened and move on, but the incident isn't so easily erased. Though many of his classmates rally behind Bijan, some don't want him or his type to be a part of their school. And Bijan's finding out it's not always easy to tell your enemies from your friends . . .

About Sara Farizan

Sara Farizan is an Iranian American writer and ardent basketball fan who was born in and lives near Boston. The award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine and Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, she has an MFA from Lesley University and a BA in film and media studies from American University. Here to Stay is her third novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CW ✨ on December 18, 2021

Here to Stay may be a simple book but it sure still packs a punch. It's about racism, friendship, and basketball, all portrayed and explored plainly, elegantly, and with humour too. - Follows Bijan, a Persian-Jordianian-American teen who loves basketball - and is good at it! But when he becomes the t......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on May 01, 2023

Good short read. I find it a bit underwhelming considering the characters, the plot and the writing. The book tackles with important topics regarding racism. It’s more of social commentary in the first half while the second half did not do much regarding character development. The ending seems too r......more

Goodreads review by Eilonwy on August 04, 2019

When Bijan gets bumped up from JV to varsity on his private school basketball team, his life gets complicated. Some people are happy for him -- he suddenly has a shot at hanging out with the popular kids -- and others, including some of those popular kids, resent his new success. Things get even......more

Goodreads review by francis on June 02, 2019

Full review: [URL not allowed] Great for fans of Adib Khorram, Here to Stay reads like a much more PG and socially relevant The Foxhole Court. A short and true-to-life story about growing up in The Age of Assholes, where cyberbullying can affect someone much more than words, an......more

Goodreads review by 28Cayden2 on May 29, 2024

It was a great book that I definitely recommend. Not only does it teach an important lesson but it also talks a lot about sports. I love the main character and you should definitely read.......more

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