Everything Sad Is Untrue

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,...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781646140008
  • Publish Date 1 September 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Levine Querido
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 368
  • Language English