Name: How It All Blew Up
Rating: 3.761904761904762 (21 reviews)
ISBN: 9780593202876

Arvin Ahmadi

Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel before an encounter with a U.S. Customs officer places his hard-won freedom at risk.

How It All Blew Up

Alice Myles

Thank you to Netgalley and Hot Key books for the opportunity to read and review this book ahead of its release!

This book was a delight and so compulsively readable! It was so fun to escape to Rome with Amir but also to delve into some deeper topics as well. One of my friends lives in Italy and this is just exactly how I picture her life. Amir was such a fun narrator and even though he was a bit of an asshole sometimes you really were rooting for him! We can so often romanticise situations, people and places and this story showed that even the things that we romanticise and deem perfect are messy when we look a little closer.

Geneviève Rouleau

"[Life's about] finding people who see you - because the minute they do, everything else goes away."

• So fun, so gay, so binge worthy
• Really enjoyed the different POVs at the airport 
• THE NIPPLE STORY AHAHAHA

How It All Blew Up

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