If You Could Be Mine

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young AdultOne of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best YA NovelsA 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 TitleA Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth 2013A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2013This Forbidden Romance Could Cost Them Their LivesSeventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed. So they carry on in secret until Nasrin’s parents suddenly announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution: homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. Sahar will never be able to love Nasrin in the body she wants to be loved in without risking their lives, but is saving their love worth sacrificing her true self?