Only This Beautiful Moment

Name: Only This Beautiful Moment
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Abdi Nazemian
ISBN: 9780063039407

Author: Abdi Nazemian

Narrator: Vikas Adam, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Iman Nazemzadeh

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 05/09/2023

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Lgbtq+, Family

Synopsis

Stonewall Book Award Winner * A Best Book of the Year from the Guardian, ALA Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage From the award–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and Darius the Great Is Not Okay. 2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself.1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country’s burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. And even worse—he’s forced to live with the American grandmother he never knew existed.1939. Bobby, the son of a calculating Hollywood stage mother, lands a coveted MGM studio contract. But the fairy-tale world of glamour he’s thrust into has a dark side.Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this tale of intergenerational trauma and love is an ode to the fragile bonds of family, the hidden secrets of history, and all the beautiful moments that make us who we are today.A CCBC 2024 Choices for the Fiction for Young Adult category!

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke

Remember Like a Love Story? About AIDS in 1989? Abdi Azemian is back with Only This Beautiful Moment, another stunning and heartfelt story. Three boys on the cusp of adulthood in 1939, 1978, and 2019. Their lives inextricably linked. Each with a link to the US and Iran. Each falling in love. Each se......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

Sweet and thoughtful young-adult novel about three generations of boys within the same Iranian family. It’s ironic that the Goodreads description says that this book is perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club because I found Only This Beautiful Moment far superior. While Last Night at t......more

Goodreads review by Nev

Only This Beautiful Moment is an emotionally impactful queer YA story about 3 generations of boys in an Iranian family. In 2019 the openly gay Moud is traveling to Iran for the first time and is concerned about hiding his sexuality for his own safety and what his family will think of him. In 1978 Mo......more

Goodreads review by Sha

beautiful heartwarming tale of 3 generations This story broke me and healed me! It’s so beautifully written. It has humor, pain, sadness, love, friendship, family, self discovery, and so much more. The author is a sheer genius and I need to check out more of their work asap.......more

Goodreads review by Lance

4.5 stars. Weaving together themes of generational trauma, queer and Iranian history, and the complicated dynamics between fathers and sons, Only This Beautiful Moment is a stunning tapestry of a novel that feels at once sweeping and intensely personal to me.......more