Hello everyone! We are so happy and excited to announce the tour for One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram. We have limited physical copies available for US residents and digital copies (Netgalley) for anyone in the US, Canada or International.
Genre: YA Contemporary
Publishing date: March 17, 2026
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Rep: LGBTQ, Queer
Synopsis:
Two teen boys grapple with identity and accountability and set off a ripple effect within their community after a school assembly is disrupted by a shouted slur.
Freshmen Dayton and Farshid couldn’t be more different—or so it seems.
When Dayton takes a dare and shouts the f-slur at a visiting author during a school event, it sets off a chain reaction that forces both boys to face parts of themselves they’d rather ignore.
Dayton, grappling with the fallout of his actions, faces rejection from his friends, disappointment from his parents, and a growing awareness of the harm he’s caused. Meanwhile, Farshid is left to untangle his own feelings—about himself and about the quiet struggle of coming to terms with his queerness in a world steeped in heteronormativity.
As their lives unexpectedly intersect, Dayton and Farshid must reckon with what kind of men they want to become and whether they have the courage to defy toxic masculinity and societal expectations.
Timely, raw, and deeply thought-provoking, this novel is perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Nic Stone.
Content Warning: bullying, homophobia, homophobic slur, racism, body dysmorphia, disordered eating, xenophobia
ADIB KHORRAM is a queer Iranian American author of fiction for all ages. His debut young adult novel DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY earned the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, and was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Greatest YA Novels of All Time. His other young adult novels DARIUS THE GREAT DESERVES BETTER, KISS & TELL, THE BREAKUP LISTS, and ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS have received critical acclaim, awards, and been bestsellers. His debut novel for adults, I’LL HAVE WHAT HE’S HAVING, was an instant USA Today Bestseller; he followed it up with IT HAD TO BE HIM, which also became a USA Today Bestseller and one of the New York Times’s best romances of 2025. He is also the author of the picture books SEVEN SPECIAL SOMETHINGS: A NOWRUZ STORY, BIJAN ALWAYS WINS (which represented Missouri in the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book’s 2025 Great Reads from Great Places), and TEA IS LOVE.
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