An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya ShahiHigh School    Allida/HarperCollins    416 pp.9/23    9780063248359    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063248373    $10.99In this verse novel set in 2001, tenth grader Omid Soltani isn’t comfortable in his own skin. As the child of Iranian immigrants living in Arizona, he feels foreign at school (especially in the...

This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2023 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Debut Authors, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by An Impossible Thing...