TOUR SCHEDULE: The Search for Us by Susan Azim Boyer

Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for The Search for Us by Susan Azim Boyer.

October 23rd
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October 24th
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Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Publishing date: October 24th, 2023

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Rep: Iranian American, bisexual, Black, Vietnamese

Synopsis:

“A sharp-witted and illuminating, impressive sophomore novel.” – Isaac Blum, author of the award-nominated The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

Two half-siblings who have never met embark on a search together for the Iranian immigrant and U.S. Army veteran father they never knew.

Samira Murphy will do anything to keep her fractured family from falling apart, including caring for her widowed grandmother and getting her older brother into recovery for alcohol addiction. With attendance at her dream college on the line, she takes a long shot DNA test to find the support she so desperately needs from a father she hasn’t seen since she was a baby.

Henry Owen is torn between his well-meaning but unreliable bio-mom and his overly strict aunt and uncle, who stepped in to raise him but don’t seem to see him for who he is. Looking to forge a stronger connection to his own identity, he takes a DNA test to find the one person who might love him for exactly who he is―the biological father he never knew.

Instead of a DNA match with their father, Samira and Henry are matched with each other. They begin to search for their father together and slowly unravel the difficult truth of their shared past, forming a connection that only siblings can have and recovering precious parts of their past that have been lost. Brimming with emotional resonance, Susan Azim Boyer’s The Search for Us beautifully renders what it means to find your place in the world through the deep and abiding power of family.

Content Warning: alcohol addiction, PTSD, anxiety, depression, racism, drunk driving, racism, domestic abuse, mentions of miscarriages

Susan’s grandmother began my obsession with reading when she was four, and she won an essay contest in second grade that included a trip to Knott’s Berry Farm (she got duped–it was only to see the Fake Liberty Bell). Susan writes young adult fiction featuring Iranian American heroines (whom she *never* encountered growing up), who make messy, complicated choices that rapidly snowball into avalanches.

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