• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 April #1
  When Nasrin gets into NYU, it seems like both her dreams and her parents' dreams for her are coming true. But Nasrin's attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a musical theater major; her parents think she's at the Stern School of Business. Nasrin doesn't intend to embark on a yearlong lie; she enrolls in a stats class at Stern (she's failing it) and plans to tell her parents the truth. But as she starts nailing auditions despite the odds—even landing a paid role on a web series—coming clean seems impossible. When Nasrin's breezily confident (and maybe a little manipulative) cousin arrives from Iran, she wastes no time taking advantage of Nasrin's secret, or of the crush Nasrin definitely does not have on her stats tutor. Nasrin's freshman year flies by at a breakneck pace, so some details feel hastily sketched. But her enthusiasm for her art, her determination, and her discovery of the life she genuinely wants versus the one her parents planned are all infectiously rendered. Plenty to sing about. Grades 9-12. Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.

Sarvenaz Tash is the author of The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love (an Amazon Best Book of the Year and YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers), Virtually Yours, Three Day Summer, and The Mapmaker and the Ghost. She is the co-author of the adult rom-coms Ghosting: A Love Story and Hollywood Ending (written as Tash Skilton). Sarvenaz was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up on Long Island, New York. She received her BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, which means she got to spend most of college running around and making movies (it was a lot of fun). She has dabbled in all sorts of writing including screenwriting, copywriting, and professional tweeting for the likes of Bravo and MTV. Her work has been translated into six languages. Sarvenaz currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two young sons. Visit her online at SarvenazTash.com or on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @SarvenazTash.

Sarvenaz Tash is the author of The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love (an Amazon Best Book of the Year and YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers), Virtually Yours, Three Day Summer, and The Mapmaker and the Ghost. She is the co-author of the adult rom-coms Ghosting: A Love Story and Hollywood Ending (written as Tash Skilton). Sarvenaz was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up on Long Island, New York. She received her BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, which means she got to spend most of college running around and making movies (it was a lot of fun). She has dabbled in all sorts of writing including screenwriting, copywriting, and professional tweeting for the likes of Bravo and MTV. Her work has been translated into six languages. Sarvenaz currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two young sons. Visit her online at SarvenazTash.com or on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @SarvenazTash.