5/24/2023 0 Comments Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi![]() ![]() She begins to act like women in rom coms she waxes her hair, stops eating hot Cheetos, and smiles more, and talks less. ![]() ![]() She decides to get a boyfriend and undertakes a change. Parvin, the protagonist, is a half-Iranian, 14-year-old girl living in the unsettling years of the Trump administration and has just been dumped by her first boyfriend for being “too much.” She is too loud, too rambunctious, and too Persian. Abtahi’s debut YA novel, Perfectly Parvin was published this past spring and features a character not too far from her own background. Olivia Abtahi wants you to know that if you are a marginalized person in a predominantly white space, you are cool.Ībtahi knows this first-hand, and in the fictional world she’s tried to invent, she also wants to make this apparent to young readers. By Annabel Dobbyns, Center Summer Intern, Oberlin College ![]()
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