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03367aam a22006378i 4500 001 1F55D0B8475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230913010647 008 161209s2017 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016050042 020 $a 163286584X 020 $a 9781632865847 035 $a (OCoLC)957022423 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d VTL $d DAD $d OCLCO $d INR $d IK2 $d VP@ $d TXKYL $d IW3 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3611.H315 $b G66 2017 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 084 $a FIC043000 $a FIC043000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Khadivi, Laleh, $e author. 245 12 $a A good country : $b a novel / $c Laleh Khadivi. 263 $a 1705 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury USA, $c 2017. 300 $a 239 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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? "-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 7 $a FICTION $x Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION $x Coming of Age. $2 bisacsh 650 0 $a Iranian American teenagers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Iranian Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Radicalization $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Laguna Beach (Calif.) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Syria $x History $y Civil War, 2011- $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft 941 $a 20 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014216.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305013443.0 952 $l BEPA251 $d 20231028012911.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012220.0 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20210205014541.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806024326.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20200806020454.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529012145.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116055102.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006105639.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720045827.0 952 $l YBPC572 $d 20171108010955.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20170831010140.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20170826010543.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20170802013456.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20170728030736.0 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20170726010237.0 952 $l VFPB334 $d 20170715010822.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170630010328.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20170603011524.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1F55D0B8475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IW3Initiate Another SILO Locator Search