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

October 23rd
Jen Jen Reviews – Review
October 24th
Confessions of a YA Reader – Promotional Post
October 25th
One More Exclamation – Review
October 26th
Laura’s Bookish Life – Review
October 27th
Thindbooks Blog – Review
October 28th
Midsummer Night’s Read – Review
October 29th
Stuck in Fiction – Promotional Post
Little Corner Reads – Review

October 23rd
nissa_the.bookworm – Promotional Post
jl_books – Promotional Post
jenjenreviews – Content Creator’s Choice
October 24th
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post
bookmarked.by.becky – Review, Favorite Quotes
rickys_radical_reads – Review
ablueboxfullofbooks – Creative Post: Little Free Library Drop, TikTok
October 25th
quirkylitlover – Promotional Post
parkhopandpages – Review, Favorite Quotes
onemoreexclamation – Content Creator’s Choice
October 26th
bookdemonio – Promotional Post
whatkarinareads – Promotional Post
sheafandink – Content Creator’s Choice
laurasbookishlife1 – Content Creator’s Choice
October 27th
Thatsmutbookbabe – Review, Mood Board
thindbooks – Content Creator’s Choice
October 28th
tbrandbeyond – Promotional Post
bookloversbookreviews – Promotional Post
the.bookrescue – Review, Playlist
October 29th
get.outside.and.read – Promotional Post
enthuse_reader – Review, TikTok
littlecornerreads – Content Creator’s Choice


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.
