![]() ![]() Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. ![]() Whether that’s a history that’s familiar to you or not, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a YA novel that handles it more poignantly than Abdi Nazemian’s Stonewall Honor sophomore YA, Like a Love Story, which follows three teens each experiencing the effects of the disease in different ways. ![]() December 1st was World AIDS Day, and there’s a lot familiar in the horrible handling and terrible ignorance of it for anyone who was around during the AIDS crisis. ![]()
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