Like our students, Reza, Art, and Judy are teenagers living through unprecedented times. I finished the book three weeks later in bed while frantically scrolling through the CDC website and unsuccessfully online shopping for hand sanitizer.
That was my last train ride before the virus came. The novel, set in the 1980s New York City, follows three teenagers and their community as they love, protest, and grieve through the AIDS epidemic. In many ways, Reza and the rest of the characters in Nazemian’s Like a Love Story provided a roadmap to what would follow. Empty trains in dark tunnels are the holiest of tombs for words I never knew I needed. There are no distractions-no musicians, students, loud business people, babies crying. Empty trains are the best for reading good books. It was just me and Reza in an empty train on a brisk March morning. I was on Boston’s Green Line when I met Abdi Nazemian’s Reza. This post was written by NCTE members shea martin and Cody Miller, members of the NCTE LGBTQ Advisory Committee.
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