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The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian

  • After a school DNA project reveals she is
    actually adopted, a fiercely proud
    Iranian-American teen secretly searches
    for her biological parents and is forced to
    redefine her entire identity.

  • This book contains: activism (referenced),
    alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies,
    controversial cultural, religious and social
    commentary, deception, death which includes
    miscarriages and a stillborn, derogatory
    terms, discrimination, grief, profanity, sexual
    activities, step-sibling adjacent incest, toxic
    relationships, and violence (referenced).

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