![]() ![]() Shirin keeps waiting for Ocean to get bored or to realize that being with her could cost him his friends, his family, and potentially his basketball scholarship. She even takes him out to watch break-dance tournaments, the one diverse place in her life where she doesn’t feel alone in a crowd of whiteness. She can’t get Ocean off her mind: Although he annoys her with his constant questions and texts, which keep eating at her data limit, Ocean forces her to open up. But two things make this new school different: break-dancing and Ocean, the white lab partner who seems to see beyond Iranian-American Shirin’s hijab. Shirin doesn’t take all the bull of her white classmates and their racist ignorance. ![]() Unlike her brother, Navid, she lies low, earbuds under her headscarf, ignoring all the racist comments thrown her way. After attending three different high schools, Shirin’s used to finding her way in new places. ![]()
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