Everything Sad Is Untrue

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 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. 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 people weep and cry "Akh, Tamar!" and touched carpets woven with precious gems. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). It is Daniel's.Author: Nayeri, Daniel,author
Contributors: Nayeri, Daniel,author
Binding: hardcover
Number Of Pages: 368
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Edition: 1
Published/Release Date: 1 Sep 2020
Format: Hardback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Levine Querido
Author/Director/Artist: Daniel Nayeri
Dimension (cm): 216x149x32 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 27x216x151 mm
Item Weight (g): 703
Package Weight (g): 572