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Everything sad is untrue : (a true story)
Title:
Everything sad is untrue : (a true story)
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
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.
Year Published:
2020
Physical Description:
356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Awards:
2023 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Junior nominee
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ISBN:
9781646140008
Publisher:
Montclair : Levine Querido, 2020.

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