Sara Farizan is an Iranian American author of the YA novels Here to Stay, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning If You Could Be Mine, which was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time. In Dead Flip (Algonquin Young Readers), Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends growing up, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine? These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs, and run away from his past. Meanwhile, Cori is a homecoming queen, hiding her abiding love of horror movies and her queer self under the bubblegum veneer of a high school queen bee. But when Sam returns – still a 12-year-old while his best friends are now 17 – Maz and Cori are thrown back together to solve the mystery of what really happened. Beneath the surface, mysteries lurk, and Sam’s is the darkest of all.
