'A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching honest and riveting. A book of astonishing
accomplishment and bravery' Guardian A searing sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make
and break one Iranian-American family Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of
night for Iran taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they
barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later spit back into American life and
changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun our protagonist
the youngest brother begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence
a queer adolescence marked by a shy secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball
court and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium.
Lyrical and open-hearted I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family
being torn apart and a boy emerging from its ashes. 'Exquisite heart-breaking incredibly
beautiful. The whole narrative thrums with a bright warm longing' Caleb Azumah Nelson
award-winning bestselling author of OPEN WATER and SMALL WORLDS 'This is a book I've dreamt of
reading my whole life... I am jealous of the generation of people who will grow up in a world
with I Will Greet the Sun Again in it. I will be thinking about these characters for the rest
of my life' Kaveh Akbar author of MARTYR! 'Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer'
Sunday Times'This is a novel of survival and longing and love and in many ways a modern
portrait of an artist as a young man. It is now one of my favourite books' Washington Post'A
heartbreaking debut' New York Times
