Everything sad is Untrue : : (a True Story)
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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 he, his mother, and sister fled Iran in the middle of the night, stretching all the way back to family tales set in the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan, the palaces of semi-ancient kings, and even the land of stories. We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs, to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou's family's past, who ate pastries that made them weep, and touched carpets woven with precious gems. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, author Daniel Nayeri weaves a tale of Khosrou trying to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). It is Daniel's."-- book jacket
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Must Read submitted by thesrays on June 26, 2023, 6:39pm Part coming of age, part immigrant tale, this book features an endearingly hospitable narrator who transports the reader to a beautiful Iran that most Americans wouldn't recognize, before sharing his insights into American culture from the perspective of a rather persecuted newcomer...weaving in his own story using the voice of his adolescent self. Not to be missed.
Evocative story telling! submitted by Cloverdale on August 17, 2023, 7:27am While this is a coming of age book shelved for tween & teen readers, as an adult I thoroughly enjoyed this profound, heart aching and deeply hilarious book. It is a story about story telling- a universal gift of being human no matter where you are from.
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Printz Award - 2021
PUBLISHED
New York : Levine Querido, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 356 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781646140008
1646140001
SUBJECTS
Nayeri, Daniel -- Fiction.
Middle school boys -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Iran -- Fiction.
Iranian American teenagers -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Families -- Iran -- Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.
Iranian Americans -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Iran -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Family life -- Iran -- Fiction.
Middle schools -- Fiction.
Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.