Will her family find a way to save them both?īased on real-life events, multi-award-winning author Deborah Ellis’s new book is a tense and riveting story about a world where homosexuality is considered so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Separated from Sadira, Farrin can only pray as she awaits execution. Despite their efforts to keep their love secret, the girls are discovered and arrested. It is against the law to be a homosexual in Iran the punishment is death. But as their friendship deepens into romance, the relationship takes a dangerous turn. Sadira is funny, wise and outgoing the two girls become inseparable. The day she meets Sadira, Farrin’s life changes forever. If the Revolutionary Guard finds out about her mother’s Bring Back the Shah activities, her family could be thrown in jail or worse. It is 1988 ever since the Shah was overthrown, the deeply conservative and religious government controls every facet of life in Iran. Although she goes to a school for gifted girls in Tehran, as the daughter of an aristocratic mother and wealthy father Farrin must keep a low profile. Fifteen-year-old Farrin has many secrets.
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