Despite the promise of its title, darkness pervades Khashayar J. Khabushani’s novel I Will Greet The Sun Again. Centring on three brothers born to Iranian immigrants, the novel deals delicately with weighty themes of displacement, identity and sexual abuse.

After their abrasive, domineering father, dangerously disillusioned with the American dream, abducts the three boys from their Californian apartment and takes them back to Iran, the brothers learn how estranged they have become from their homeland. Struggling to acclimatise to the unfamiliar rules and emotional reticence of this new world, they desperately plot a return to the USA. Yet, arriving back in the wake of 9/11, they discover that their adopted country is no longer the haven it once was.

As the brothers grow into young men, they face the anger of their classmates and the ignorance of their peers. Alongside every teenager’s need to find themselves, they must also carve out a place for themselves in a world determined to deny them agency. Sensitively told, I Will Greet The Sun Again is a poetic, sweeping love letter to the specific hinterland known only to adolescents and immigrants, each seeking to belong yet repeatedly, destructively torn between two opposing versions of themselves.