Desert Echoes

Name: Desert Echoes
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Abdi Nazemian
ISBN: 9780063339668

Author: Abdi Nazemian

Narrator: Arya Shahi

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/10/2024

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes

Synopsis

From Abdi Nazemian, the award-winning author of Like a Love Story and Only This Beautiful Moment, comes a suspenseful contemporary YA novel about loss and love.Fifteen-year-old Kam is head over heels for Ash, the boy who swept him off his feet. But his family and best friend, Bodie, are worried. Something seems off about Ash. He also has a habit of disappearing, at times for days. When Ash asks Kam to join him on a trip to Joshua Tree, the two of them walk off into the sunset . . . but only Kam returns.Two years later, Kam is still left with a hole in his heart and too many unanswered questions. So it feels like fate when a school trip takes him back to Joshua Tree. On the trip, Kam wants to find closure about what happened to Ash but instead finds himself in danger of facing a similar fate. In the desert, Kam must reckon with the truth of his past relationship—and the possibility of opening himself up to love once again.Desert Echoes is a propulsive, moving story about human resilience and connection.

About Abdi Nazemian

Abdi Nazemian is the author of Only This Beautiful Moment—winner of the 2024 Stonewall Award and 2024 Lambda Literary Award—and Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time. He is also the author of the young adult novels Desert Echoes, The Chandler Legacies, and The Authentics. 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.

About Arya Shahi

Arya Shahi is an Iranian-American playwright, poet, and rapper. He is the co-founder of PigPen Theatre Co., an award-winning theatre company and band. With PigPen, Arya has written, directed, and performed in original plays (including The Old Man and the Old Moon) as well as books adapted for stage (including Kate DiCamillo’s The Tale of Despereaux). PigPen’s album Bremen was released in 2012, followed by Whole Sun in 2015. Arya lives in Brooklyn. www.aryashahi.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke on October 25, 2024

History is All You Left Me meets Hideous Beauty Sometimes, we have to look back in order to move forward. Abdi Nazemian is a superb YA author. His previous books, Like a Love Story and Only This Beautiful Moment, were fantastic. And here’s another amazing one. Think of History is All You Left Me, but......more

Goodreads review by John on March 08, 2025

Beautifully written and heartbreaking. I’m definitely following this author’s work from now on.......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on October 30, 2024

Bruh that ending made me mad.......more

Goodreads review by Eloise on October 30, 2024

An absolutely beautiful read. My heart ached for Ash, for Kam, for Bodie... All of them deserve the world despite the shit that they're going through. Marieke's review sums up everything so perfectly. Abdi Nazemian is making his way towards my auto-buy list of favourite authors... I talk about books h......more

Goodreads review by Beatriz on October 06, 2024

Abdi, once again, wrote a moving story with fleshed out characters, no one is perfect, all are just trying their best, some better than others, to be honest a couple aren’t trying much at all, but still all humans, making mistakes and loving and losing and finding each other.......more