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Abdi Nazemian

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in Tehran, Iran

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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 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 w ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 25,770 ratings · 5,112 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Like a Love Story 4.25 avg rating — 16,312 ratings — published 2019 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chandler Legacies 3.63 avg rating — 3,896 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Only This Beautiful Moment 4.41 avg rating — 3,013 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Authentics: A YA Novel of Culture, Identity, and a Shocking Secret That Changes Everything 3.56 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exquisite Things: An Epic Queer Love Story of Immortality and Freedom Spanning 130 Years 4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desert Echoes 3.88 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2024 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Walk-In Closet 3.82 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A gente se vê na Parada by Abdi Nazemian (Goodreads Author), Ariel F. Hitz, Arquelana 4.17 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SwapLife by Abdi Nazemian (Goodreads Author), Pedro Rhuas (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exquisite things by Abdi Nazemian (Goodreads Author), Georges Content (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Tell your story until it becomes woven into the fabric of our story. Write about the joys and the pain and every event and every artist who inspires you to dream. Tell your story, because if you don't, it could be wiped out. No one tells our stories for us. And one more thing. If you see an elderly person walking down the street, or across from you at a coffee shop, don't look away from them, don't dismiss them, and don't just ask them how they're doing. Ask them where they have been instead. And then listen. Because there's no future without a past.”
― Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

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“The most important four-letter word in our history will always be LOVE. That’s what we are fighting for. That’s who we are. Love is our legacy.”
― Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

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“I always thought my own father hated me, but Stephen said to me that nobody truly hates anyone. Hate is just fear in drag, he said.”
― Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

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Which book would you like to read for September/October?

The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif

12 votes, 22.2%

The Walk-In Closet by Abdi Nazemian

11 votes, 20.4%

The Absolutist by John Boyne

11 votes, 20.4%

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

8 votes, 14.8%

Song of the Spring Moon Waning by E.E. Ottoman

5 votes, 9.3%

Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea by Dan Lopez

4 votes, 7.4%

Favorite Son by Will Freshwater

3 votes, 5.6%

54 total votes

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