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

  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Gone Wolf


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • Pet


  • Displacement


  • Bitter Root, Volume 1: Family Business


  • The 57 Bus


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


  • You Truly Assumed


  • Persepolis


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • Run: Book One


  • Harvest House


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • Fight Back


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • Gone Wolf


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Frizzy


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Displacement


  • Omar Rising


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Persepolis


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • I'm a Wild Seed


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


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


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


  • Frizzy


  • Omar Rising


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


  • Free Lunch


  • Free Lunch


  • You Truly Assumed


  • The Black Flamingo


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Ain't Burned All the Bright


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • We Are the Scribes


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • We Are the Scribes


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • The 57 Bus


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


  • Nubia: Real One


  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky


  • We Deserve Monuments


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


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


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


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Fight Back


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • Felix Ever After


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


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


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • Harvest House


  • New Kid


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • New Kid


  • 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