Adib Khorram knows a thing or two about storytelling.
The Iranian-American author from Kansas City won numerous awards for his 2018 young adult novel "Darius the Great Is Not Okay," which follows a high-schooler with clinical depression struggling to find his place in both America and Iran.
Now, after years of writing bestselling children’s and YA books, Khorram is trying his hand at adult fiction with the steamy, food-filled romance "I’ll Have What He’s Having," out on August 27.
The late-summer read takes place in Kansas City and orbits around two men barreling toward their forties who find themselves connecting over their shared love of the Fountain City’s vibrant local food offerings.
Khorram told Up To Date's Brian Ellison that he's had trouble relating to characters in the romance genre, which is what inspired him to write "I'll Have What He's Having."
“So many of them were set in New York City or Los Angeles. So many of them were people in their 20s, which I am very much not. So many of them didn't really focus on queer people or brown people," he says. ”And I was like, maybe I could try writing one."
- Adib Khorram, award-winning author
