'A heartbreaking debut' - New York Times
'Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer' - The Sunday Times

A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family

Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium.


Lyrical and open-hearted, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes.

"A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching... a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery" - Guardian

"Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful " - Caleb Azumah Nelson

"Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer" - Sunday Times

"A heartbreaking debut" - New York Times

"Khashayar J. Khabushani's debut novel - told from the perspective of an Iranian American boy whose immigrant parents are struggling to build a life in L.A. - is a brutally intimate reckoning with coming of age as a Muslim after 9/11, the confusion of navigating conflicting worlds, and the burning desire to belong" - New York Magazine

"'Tender and touching...a brave and beautifully written story about belonging and finding one's place in the world.'" - The Bookseller

"A gut wrenching debut that follows a young boy in adolescence as he is uprooted from Los Angeles to Iran, who then faces the challenge of growing into his queer identity on his return to America" - Elle

"This terrific debut by a young American with Iranian heritage is a story about formative change and recalibration." - Big Issue

"'A tale of diaspora that is as gutting as it is tender, I Will Greet the Sun Again is an inquiry into what we can lay claim to: the collective haunting of a lost country, queerness that is barely allowed to take shape, grief and fear that can, at any moment, explode into violence. Every word, deft and unassuming, shatters'" - Skinny

"A writer to watch" - Daily Mail

"Sensitively told, I Will Greet The Sun Again is a poetic, sweeping love letter to the specific hinterland known only to adolescents and immigrants, each seeking to belong yet repeatedly, destructively torn between two opposing versions of themselves." - Buzz Magazine

"A stunning debut for the summer... this story is a poignant and beautifully crafted depiction of home, family and growing up" - Glamour Magazine

"This heartrending tale will stay with readers" - Publishers Weekly