I Will Greet the Sun Again

Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful

Caleb Azumah Nelson

Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer

Sunday Times

A heartbreaking debut

New York Times

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

Justin Torres, author of WE THE ANIMALS

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

New York Magazine

A beautiful, lyrical delve into identity, familial betrayal, and the lasting effects of childhood trauma. Khabushani renders American boyhood and coming of age as viscerally and clear-eyed as he transports--from L.A.'s basketball courts and housing complexes to the bazaars and highways of Iran. I Will Greet the Sun Again is as breathtaking as it is heartbreaking.

Jonathan Escoffery, Booker-shortlisted author of I WILL SURVIVE YOU

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

Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING

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

Heidi Julavits, author of THE FOLDED CLOCK and THE VANISHERS

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

Catherine Lacey, author of NOBODY IS EVER MISSING