The Authentics By: Abdi Nazemian Narrated by. Abdi Nazemian Narrated by: Kyla Garcia Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins Unabridged. But after meeting the beautiful and brazen Tegan Oglietti, his world was turned upside down. Daria's struggles will resonate with readers who have felt like they don't know where they belong or who they want to be, and certainly with the children of immigrants who feel caught between worlds. Abdi Taalib thought he was moving to Australia for a music scholarship. His screenwriting credits include the films The Artists Wife, The Quiet, and Menendez: Blood Brothers and the television series The Village and Almost Family. His novel The Walk-In Closet won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction.

Nazemian raises thought-provoking questions about what 'authenticity' means Daria and her friends, aka the Authentics, pride themselves on keeping it real. Abdi Nazemian is the author of Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book, and The Authentics. She finds the woman's stepson first and romantic sparks fly. Struggling with her sense of self after determining that she was adopted, Daria buries the hurt and betrayal she feels toward her parents and sets out to find her biological mother. ABDI NAZEMIAN (he/him) is the author of Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book, and The Authentics.His novel The Walk-In Closet won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction. The project is simple: the students must present the stories of how they got to where they are today, but 15-year-old Daria Esfandyar gets startling results from a genealogy test she takes with her friends, learning that she is half Mexican and not fully Iranian as she thought. What begins as an English class assignment transforms into a messy but fulfilling journey of self-discovery for a Beverly Hills teen in this first YA title from screenwriter and novelist Nazemian (The Walk-in Closet). 15.99 17.99 Save 11 Current price is 15.99, Original price is 17.99.

The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian