A triumph… tender and gut-wrenching… a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery

Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful

Life-affirming… Khabushani is a talented writer

A heartbreaking debut

A moving debut, teeming with desire and light, and quietly devastating. Khashayar J. Khabushani’s voice keens and surprises, and at the center of the book we find K, tenderhearted, spirit glowing like a beacon

Khashayar J. Khabushani’s debut novel – told from the perspective of an Iranian American boy whose immigrant parents are struggling to build a life in L.A. – is a brutally intimate reckoning with coming of age as a Muslim after 9/11, the confusion of navigating conflicting worlds, and the burning desire to belong

Khashayar J. Khabushani’s debut novel, devoted to adolescence in all its glory and devastation, is a marvel. Reading it, I felt the thrill and joy of encountering a major writer at the beginning of his career

A work of meticulous care and genuine candor, one that shies away from no earthly event, yet spiritually soars. To read it is to experience the contradictions of the weighty and the exalted, to witness a self forged by both brutality and love. Khabushani is a poetic visionary, as generous as he is brave

Khashayar J. Khabushani has taken a coming-of-age story and flooded it with light. His sentences are as delicate as ripe berries, yet the voice manages to be intrepid, determined and clear. This is a gorgeous and wrenching debut from a writer I’ll be following for many years to come

Why wasn’t Khabushani’s I Will Greet the Sun Again around when I was ten, when I was twenty? This is a book I’ve dreamt of reading my whole life… I will be thinking about these characters for the rest of my life

Deeply moving and courageous, I Will Greet the Sun Again explores the sense of loss and violence inherent in the immigrant experience. An intimate and unflinching story about the ways in which we hurt each other and how we all need love and acceptance to survive

A tender, heartbreaking portrait of a sweet child living in a broken world. Khabushani is an incredibly talented writer

‘Tender and touching…a brave and beautifully written story about belonging and finding one’s place in the world.’

A gut wrenching debut that follows a young boy in adolescence as he is uprooted from Los Angeles to Iran, who then faces the challenge of growing into his queer identity on his return to America

This terrific debut by a young American with Iranian heritage is a story about formative change and recalibration.

‘A tale of diaspora that is as gutting as it is tender, I Will Greet the Sun Again is an inquiry into what we can lay claim to: the collective haunting of a lost country, queerness that is barely allowed to take shape, grief and fear that can, at any moment, explode into violence. Every word, deft and unassuming, shatters‘

A writer to watch

Sensitively told, I Will Greet The Sun Again is a poetic, sweeping love letter to the specific hinterland known only to adolescents and immigrants, each seeking to belong yet repeatedly, destructively torn between two opposing versions of themselves.

A stunning debut for the summer… this story is a poignant and beautifully crafted depiction of home, family and growing up

I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful. The whole narrative thrums with a bright, warm longing. You can feel the sunshine of LA and Iran, the rhythm of Khashayar J Khabushani’s voice. This is a novel to return to again and again.