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Sara Jafari is a British-Iranian author and editor. She is the author of The Mismatch and People Change (Penguin Random House, 2021 and 2023).

People Change will be published as Things Left Unsaid by St. Martin’s Press in Spring 2025.

Longlisted for Spread the Word's Life Writing Prize, her writing has also been published in gal-dem and The Good Journal, among other publications. She is also a contributor of the essay collection "I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour (Walker Books, 2019), and Who’s Loving You (Trapeze, 2021).
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	The Mismatch 3.73 avg rating — 2,978 ratings — published 2021 — 10 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
	I Will Not Be Erased: Our Stories About Growing Up as People of Colour by gal-dem, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (Narrator), Yumna Al-Arashi (Narrator) 4.26 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 2019 — 6 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
	Who’s Loving You by Sareeta Domingo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Goodreads Author), Sara Collins (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 2021	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
	Things Left Unsaid 3.77 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	People Change 3.85 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2023 — 4 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
	So Long As You Write: Women on Writing by Kerry Ryan, Luan Goldie (Goodreads Author), Sara Jafari (Goodreads Author) 4.65 avg rating — 51 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
	Heavensent & Hellbent 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 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
	Tales from the City: Londoners on Food, Climate & Nature by Token, Sara Jafari (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 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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The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)

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“Some people are radiators, and others are drains.”
― Sara Jafari, The Mismatch

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“Was it treacherous, she wondered, to abandon one's own country when times had gotten difficult? Neda and Hossein went to small demonstrations together in the streets, with hundreds of others. shouting for democracy, for a new leader. but it was dangerous, and despite always displaying outer strength, she didn't want to have to fight anymore. There was talk of friends of friends being taken to prison, tortured for talking against the Shah.”
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“You don’t need to be strong all the time,’ he says, still holding her. ‘Let it out.’ But Shirin’s thinking, That’s the whole problem. She is not strong enough. She is not enough.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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