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Author Khadivi, Laleh, author.

Title A good country : [a novel] / Laleh Khadivi.

Publication Info. [Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, [2017]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Audiobook  BKCD KHADIVI    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 090000.
Description digital optical rda.
audio file CD audio rda.
Note Subtitle from container.
Performer Read by Assaf Cohen.
Note Compact discs.
Summary Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict father comes easily.But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and two friends are making their way to Syria to join in the fight.Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all souls: Does a person decide how to live, or is their life decided for them?
Subject Muslim teenagers -- California -- Fiction.
Radicalization -- Fiction.
Iranians -- California -- Fiction.
Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Added Author Cohen, Assaf, 1972- narrator.
ISBN 1470862093
9781470862091
Standard No. 9781470862091
Music No. ZEc6gl Blackstone Audiobooks
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