Suddenly, being herself has never been more important. And hardest of all, the ramifications of the Muslim ban on her family in Iran. A confusing friendship with a boy who's definitely not supposed to like her. Also hard? The parent-mandated Farsi lessons. Those women aren't loud, they certainly don't cackle when they laugh, and they smile much more than they talk.īut Parvin discovers that being a rom-com dream girl is much harder than it looks. Since being herself hasn't worked for her in the past (see aforementioned dumping), she decides to start acting like the women in her favorite rom-coms. There's just one problem: Matty is definitely too cool for bassoon-playing, frizzy-haired, Cheeto-eating Parvin.

If Parvin can get Matty to ask her to Homecoming, she's positive it will prove to herself and her ex that she's girlfriend material after all. Enter high school heartthrob Matty Fumero, who just might be the smoking-hot cure to all her boy problems. Not only is she heartbroken, she's humiliated. Parvin Mohammadi has just been dumped-only days after receiving official girlfriend status. Easy enough, right?īut as Parvin struggles through her parent-mandated Farsi lessons on the weekends, a budding friendship with a boy she can’t help but be her unfiltered self with, and dealing with the ramifications of the Muslim Ban on her family in Iran, she realizes that being herself might just be the perfect thing after all.Fourteen-year-old Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to homecoming in this heartfelt and outright hilarious debut. Those girls aren’t loud, they certainly don’t cackle when they laugh, and they smile much more than they talk. Since being herself has not worked for her in the past (see aforementioned relationship), she decides that to be the girl who finally gets the guy, she should start acting like the women in her favorite rom-coms. The only problem is Matty is definitely too cool for bassoon-playing, frizzy-haired, Cheeto-eating Parvin. If Parvin can get Matty to ask her to homecoming, she’s positive it will erase all the awful and embarrassing feelings He Who Will Not Be Named left her with after the summer.

Parvin has just had her heart broken when she meets the cutest boy at her new high school, Matty Fumero–with an emphasis on fumero, because he might be the smoking hot cure to all of her boy troubles.

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