Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Like a Love Story’ by Abdi Nazemian

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Like a Love Story’ by Abdi Nazemian

Abdi Nazemian’s “Like a Love Story” is a poignant examination of what identity, individuality, community, death, and legacy look like when the stakes are at their highest. Specific in its setting and subject matter – dealing with AIDS and coming out in the 1980s– but universal in its depiction of the teenage experience. One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult books of All Time, the novel is now banned from all public schools in Utah and face…