Everything Sad is Untrue
(a True Story)
Montclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, [2020], ©2020.
Format: Book
Description: 356 pages : illustrations ; 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.
Contents:
8 books -- Content list -- Author sheet -- Discussion questions -- Sign-up sheet -- Book club kits policy/How to use the book kit.
Subjects:
Nayeri, Daniel -- Juvenile 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 -- Juvenile fiction.
Refugees -- Iran -- Juvenile fiction.
Refugees -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.
Family life -- Iran -- Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.
Nayeri, Daniel -- Juvenile 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 -- Juvenile fiction.
Refugees -- Iran -- Juvenile fiction.
Refugees -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.
Family life -- Iran -- Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781646140008
Michael L. Printz Award Winner, 2021
Middle East Book Award, Youth Literature, 2021
Middle East Book Award, Youth Literature, 2021