"A sharp-witted and illuminating, impressive sophomore novel." - Isaac
Blum, author of the award-nominated The Life and Crimes of Hoodie
Rosen
Two half-siblings who have never met embark on a search together for
the Iranian immigrant and U.S. Army veteran father they never knew.
Samira Murphy will do anything to keep her fractured family from falling
apart, including caring for her widowed grandmother and getting her
older brother into recovery for alcohol addiction. With attendance at
her dream college on the line, she takes a long shot DNA test to find
the support she so desperately needs from a father she hasn't seen since
she was a baby.
Henry Owen is torn between his well-meaning but unreliable bio-mom and
his overly strict aunt and uncle, who stepped in to raise him but don't
seem to see him for who he is. Looking to forge a stronger connection
to his own identity, he takes a DNA test to find the one person who
might love him for exactly who he is--the biological father he never
knew.
Instead of a DNA match with their father, Samira and Henry are matched
with each other. They begin to search for their father together and
slowly unravel the difficult truth of their shared past, forming a
connection that only siblings can have and recovering precious parts of
their past that have been lost. Brimming with emotional resonance, Susan
Azim Boyer's The Search for Us beautifully renders what it means to
find your place in the world through the deep and abiding power of
family.
