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Like a Love Story

by Abdi Nazemian

Length 10 hours 50 minutes

Language English

Narrators Lauren Ambrose, Vikas Adam & Michael Crouch

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“This young adult novel is set in the 1980s so is fun nostalgia (lots of Madonna references!) for Gen X and older millennial readers and (eek!) historical fiction for teens. It's set in New York during the AIDS crisis and the characters are involved in AIDS activism while also navigating their own sexuality and relationships. The characters are mature and thoughtful, and I found them easy to believe and empathize with. The narration was smooth and easy to listen to.”
— Tracey • Turning the Tide Bookstore

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2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Young Adult

Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time

""A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.

Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS.

Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating.

Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs.

As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart—and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known.

This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.

Romance LGBTQIA+ Fiction YA Fiction

Abdi Nazemian is the author of Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book, Only This Beautiful Moment, The Chandler Legacies, The Authentics, and Desert Echoes. His novel The Walk-In Closet won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction. His screenwriting credits include the films The Artist’s Wife, The Quiet, and Menendez: Blood Brothers and the television series Ordinary Joe and The Village. He has been an executive producer and associate producer on numerous films, including Call Me by Your Name, Little Woods, and The House of Tomorrow. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, their two children, and their dog, Disco. Find him online at abdinazemian.com.

Lauren Ambrose received critical acclaim as Juliet in Shakespeare in the Park's Romeo and Juliet. Other theater credits include Sam Shepard's Buried Child at The National Theater in London and Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing on Broadway. She was nominated for two Emmy^® awards for her work in Six Feet Under.