They also noted how the books goes to great lengths to show a diverse cast of transgender characters, and never says that transitioning is a mistake. Kirkus Reviews called it " moving and elegant story of first love and family". If You Could Be Mine was well received by critics. : 1:50 Farizan, who is Iranian-American and gay, said she spent several years closeted due to her parents being from Iran and fearing it wasn't safe to talk to others about her same-sex attraction.
In an interview with NPR, she said that part of the reason she decided to write about these themes was to explore the experience Iranian youth can go through in a country where homosexuality is banned.
Sara Farizan began writing about LGBT themes for young adults while in graduate school, at Lesley University. Through her gay cousin, Ali, she meets Parveen, a transgender woman, and decides she will go through sex reassignment surgery so Nasrin will accept marrying her. While Nasrin is content to have her as a lover, Sahar becomes desperate. Nasrin was arranged to be married to a man, and she is unwilling to call it off so as not to disappoint her family. Her girlfriend comes from a wealthy family and, although she also loves Sahar, she is afraid to have an open relationship with her, due to the persecution of LGBT people in their country. She grew up in a humble house with her single father and is in a love affair with her childhood friend, Nasrin. The book is narrated by Sahar, a teenager that lives in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. The book was received positively by critics, especially due to its description of the life of homosexual and transgender people in Iran, and it received multiple awards from LGBT publications in 2014. The book tells the story of Sahar, an Iranian teenage girl who is willing to go through sex reassignment surgery so she can marry her best friend, Nasrin. If You Could Be Mine is a 2013 young adult novel by Sara Farizan.
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