Parisa Akhbari

What an incredible story about love and trust.

Mitra shares everything with her best friend Bea, like the never-ending poem the two of them have been penning through years of Catholic school, culminating in senior year. Except Mitra hasn't shared that she's actually in love with Bea, or the truth about the emotional pain inflicted by Mitra's pill-addicted mother. Then Mitra's mom returns and Bea finds out the depth of Mitra's feelings. What's a girl to do?

Steeped in poetry and Persian American culture, this story tells the incredible story of how Mitra comes to terms with her mother's addiction and Mitra's own trust issues. There's a powerful lesson involved. "I am more than things I've ruined." Mitra's best friends-to-lovers journey is so sweet, but her connections with her family, especially with her younger sister, had me in tears.… (más)