Growing up in the DC area, Olivia always had a passion for cinema and storytelling. Born to an Iranian father and an Argentine mother, she is a melting pot of distinct cultures. Olivia Abtahi is a film director and writer based in Denver, Colorado. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband and daughter. Her middle grade debut, Rostam and the Red Dwarf, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in 2025, along with her Picture Book debut from Kokila in the same year. Her sophomore novel, Azar on Fire, was published in August 2022. Her debut novel, Perfectly Parvin, was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House Putnam Books For Young Readers, receiving the SCBWI Golden Kite Honor, and YALSA Odyssey Honor, and numerous starred reviews. Growing up in the DC area, Olivia devoured books and hid in empty classrooms during school to finish them. Olivia Abtahi's debut is as hilarious as it is heartfelt-a delightful tale where, amid the turmoil of high school friendships and crushes, being yourself is always the perfect way to be.Download author photos and book covers here Short Bio Suddenly, being herself has never been more important. And hardest of all, the ramifications of the Muslim ban on her family in Iran. A confusing friendship with a boy who's definitely not supposed to like her. Also hard? The parent-mandated Farsi lessons. Those women aren't loud, they certainly don't cackle when they laugh, and they smile much more than they talk.īut Parvin discovers that being a rom-com dream girl is much harder than it looks.

Since being herself hasn't worked for her in the past (see aforementioned dumping), she decides to start acting like the women in her favorite rom-coms. There's just one problem: Matty is definitely too cool for bassoon-playing, frizzy-haired, Cheeto-eating Parvin. If Parvin can get Matty to ask her to Homecoming, she's positive it will prove to herself and her ex that she's girlfriend material after all. Enter high school heartthrob Matty Fumero, who just might be the smoking-hot cure to all her boy problems.

Not only is she heartbroken, she's humiliated. Parvin Mohammadi has just been dumped-only days after receiving official girlfriend status. Fourteen-year-old Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to homecoming in this heartfelt and outright hilarious debut.

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