Sarah Dessen meets Abigail Hing Wen in this heartwarming romantic
comedy starring Nasrin Mahdavi, an Iranian-American college freshman
who's a triple threat on Broadway--but who's living a double life.
It's her first semester majoring in musical theater at NYU's prestigious
Tisch School of the Arts, and Nasrin spends her days prepping for
auditions, sweating through dance classes, and belting her heart out for
the viral streaming show she's been cast in. But on calls with her maman
and baba, she's the golden child who put her theater dreams aside to
follow in their entrepreneurial footsteps as a business major.
At least her whole life isn't a lie--she is taking a single business
course. Except she's kind of failing it. Nasrin needs to bring her grade
up fast if she's going to keep her parents in the dark, so she
grudgingly signs up for tutoring with the infuriatingly smug and
annoyingly attractive Max. And yet . . . as the semester rushes by,
the sparks of anger that first flew between them start to turn into a
very different kind of spark. The kind she definitely does not have
time for.
Except when Nasrin's charmingly devious cousin takes an interest in Max
too, Nasrin has to figure out exactly what has been an act, and what's
for real. Can Nasrin decide what--and who--is truly worth fighting for,
and find a way to step into the spotlight as her full self?
