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Everything Sad is Untrue: (A True Story)

By Daniel Nayeri
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Levine Querido Imprint Arthur A. Levine ISBN

9781646140008

Awards and Honors 2021 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
Publisher's Weekly Best Young Adult Books of 2020
2021 Walter Honoree, Younger Readers Category
2021 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature - Honor Book

Everything Sad is Untrue: (A True Story)

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Crime: Drug Trafficking/Dealing,Discrimination: Religious,Language: Mild Language,Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur,Sexual Content: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Child Abuse,Violence: Cruelty to Animals,Violence: Domestic/Physical Abuse,Violence: Graphic Descriptions,Violence: War/Harsh Realities of War

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.



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).

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