Everything Sad Is Untrue
(A True Story)
by Daniel Nayeri
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At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan.
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Children's fiction, New York Times reviewed, Students, fiction, Oklahoma, fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Middle school boys, Immigrants, Iranians, Iranian American teenagers, Truthfulness and falsehood, Fiction, Iranian Americans, Refugees, Mothers and sons, Storytelling, Family life, Middle schools, JUVENILE FICTION / Biographical / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration, Families, Family, School stories, Middle school students, Young adult fiction| Edition | Availability |
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Everything Sad is Untrue
Sep 01, 2021, Thorndike Striving Reader
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1432888722 9781432888725
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Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story)
2020-08, Levine Querido
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1646140028 9781646140022
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