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Everything sad is untrue : (a true story) / Daniel Nayeri.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781646140008
- ISBN: 1646140001
- Physical Description: 356 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Montclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, [2020]
- Distributor: San Francisco, California : Distributed by Chronicle Books LLC, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Young adult works. Domestic fiction. Young adult fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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| Homer Public Library | YA NAY (Text) | 000159889 | Teen Corner -- Fiction | Available | - |
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Everything Sad Is Untrue : (a True Story)
Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the publisher of Odd Dot, an imprint of Macmillan, making him one of the youngest publishers in the industry. He has served on the CBC diversity committee and the CBC panel committee. He lives in New York City. His autobiographical novel, Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) was the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award.
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