An Impossible Thing to Say

Arya Shahi
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Shahi)

Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, and to show everyone that he truly belongs in Tucson, Arizona, the only home he's ever known. An act of terrorism transforms familiar accents into new threats. When words fail altogether and violence takes their place, what will Omid do next?


Antiracist Books for Teens

  • New Kid


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • Omar Rising


  • Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • Gone Wolf


  • Frizzy


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Felix Ever After


  • Run: Book One


  • Frizzy


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • You Truly Assumed


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Harvest House


  • Free Lunch


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  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • The 57 Bus


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • Persepolis


  • You Truly Assumed


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Bitter Root, Volume 1: Family Business


  • Harvest House


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Displacement


  • Persepolis


  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky


  • Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • Gone Wolf


  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • New Kid


  • Fight Back


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • Pet


  • Fight Back


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • The 57 Bus


  • Ain't Burned All the Bright


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Nubia: Real One


  • Omar Rising


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • We Are the Scribes


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Free Lunch


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


  • Displacement


  • We Are the Scribes


  • The Black Flamingo


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1