Like a Love Story

De: Abdi Nazemian

Narrado por: Lauren Ambrose, Vikas Adam, Michael Crouch

A 2020 Audie Awards finalist - young adult

“A love letter to queerness, self-expression, and individuality (also Madonna) that never shies away from the ever-present fear within the queer community of late '80s New York, Like a Love Story made me feel so full - of hope, love, courage, pride, and awe for the many people who fought for love and self-expression in the face of discrimination, cruelty, and death.

"A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.” (Mackenzi Lee, New York Times best-selling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue)

It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.

Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS.

Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating.

Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs.

As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart - and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known.

This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.

©2019 Abdi Nazemian (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers

Excellent!

The writing, the performance, the story are all phenomenal. This is an amazing work! Nazemian writes from multiple points of view with compassion and deep understanding. I was only in grade school during this time and while I understand the references now, hearing them in a different context has been wonderful.

Amazing book! Just don’t listen while eating….

Loved the book. We were assigned this from our high school teacher and the entire class enjoyed it. However, I was listening to this audiobook while eating (the part where Reza talks about art’s sweet).

To conclude:
Amazing book
Amazing narration
Amazing story line
Don’t listen to it while eating

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A beautiful and compelling story to read

This book was amazing. Initially it was a little slow pace however once the story developed itself it was well told. Historically beautiful.

Tell Your Story, it can help others

Not what I expected...great read. Speaking from a teens point of view life is broken down about sex, AIDS, homosexuality, friendship, love, virginity, and finding oneself no matter what your family or friends think. What's surprised me more was the Iranian boy( Reza) defying the odds and addressing his feelings and his sexual thoughts even though it's frowned upon in his culture. I loved that uncle Stephen was the teens sounding board because he himself libed through what they are experiencing. Uncle Stephen, an activist, is also a gay man dying from AIDS. Uncle Stephen exposes Madonna to the teens who grew to love her as much as him. This story has so much love, uncertainty and all the feels. Please read this, whether young adult or old hen. #Book33of2021 #bookworm
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This love story moves me.

I love the story. This era brings so many memories. So life like. Narration awesomeness.

amazing story

amazing story about love, friendship, overcoming struggles and hope. Everyone should read this story

Pretty Nice Time

I'm not a fan of endings like these, but I did have a good time along the way.

Wow!

A book that should become a part of school educational system. Great! Amazing! Really loved it! :)

Simply Amazing

I downloaded this based on the positive reviews and was NOT disappointed. This is like nothing else I have ever read and I don't even know where to begin in writing the review.

Reza, Judy, and Art are REAL and the performance of this was phenomenal. I generally don't like Michael Crouch as a narrator. His parts always seem so downtrodden and depressed. And, at first, I thought I was in for a similar performance. (Which I was...) I felt like the chapters narrated by him (Michael Crouch) the tone of voice, pacing of speech, volume... just didn't match when the other narrators were performing lines that Art's character was saying. But, then I realized the crux of Art is that he comes across so confident and unabashed, but, on the inside, he's unsure of himself. And it made Michael Crouch's performance match the trueness of the character so perfectly!

I laughed during the book and spent the last 30 minutes crying. I learned a lot about AIDS activism and history. I've always been a huge fan of the musical RENT and have seen it no less than 8 times. This book helped me make parallels between the two and understand some aspects of history that I didn't know before.

I seriously loved these characters. I loved that the ending was real. I loved that everyone grew and changed and became enlightened in their own ways. The relationship between everyone and their parents, the relationships between each character and one another... it was all just real and beautiful.

The bottom line is- READ IT.