“A modern masterpiece…It’s for the kids at the lunch table the heroes of tomorrow, just looking to survive the battle of adolescence. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. The following summary adheres to a more streamlined and linear mode of explanation. The novel employs a fragmented, patchwork structure, and is told predominantly in the present tense. 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 fieldsnear the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of the sunset had burst over everything, and further back still to the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. Daniel Nayeri's novel Everything Sad Is Untrue is told from the first person point of view of the 12-year-old protagonist, Daniel. 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. At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story.
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