Author: Arvin Ahmadi
Sixteen-year-old Scott Ferdowsi has a track record of quitting. His parents pressure him to get serious and settle on a career path like engineering or medicine. Desperate for help, he sneaks off to Washington, D.C. while his parents are visiting his ailing grandfather in Iran, to seek guidance from a famous professor who specializes in grit, the psychology of success. But once he meets Fiora Buchanan, a ballsy college student whose life ambition is to write crossword puzzles, Scott finds himself on an adventure that opens his eyes to fundamental truths about who he is and who he wants to be.
Arvin Ahmadi’s debut novel ‘Down and Across’ is dealing with the crisis of struggling for overcoming the things of life which creates the dilemma of living.
