Everything sad is untrue : (a true story) /
Daniel Nayeri.
- Montclair : Levine Querido, 2020.
- 356 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Michael L. Printz Award Winner, 2021
9781646140008 1646140001
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Nayeri, Daniel--Fiction.
Middle school boys--Oklahoma--Juvenile fiction. Immigrants--Iran--Juvenile fiction. Iranian American teenagers--Oklahoma--Juvenile fiction. Truthfulness and falsehood--Juvenile fiction. Iranian Americans--Oklahoma--Fiction. Refugees--Iran--Fiction. Refugees--Oklahoma--Fiction. Mothers and sons--Fiction. Storytelling--Fiction. Family life--Iran--Fiction. Middle schools--Fiction. JUVENILE FICTION / Biographical / General. JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational. JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration. Families. Immigrants. Iranian American teenagers. Middle school boys. Truthfulness and falsehood. Iranians--Juvenile fiction. Storytelling--Juvenile fiction. Family--Juvenile fiction. Refugees--Juvenile fiction. School stories. Middle school students--Juvenile fiction. Iranians--Fiction. Storytelling--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. Refugees--Fiction. Middle school students--Fiction.