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Everything Sad is Untrue

(a true story)

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Everything Sad is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri
Narrated 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, 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. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). Biographical Fiction Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Multi-generational Family Biography Funny
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Excellent storytelling about an important life, and the power of real hope. Real, funny, raw, heartwarming and aspirational all at once.

A story every Westerner should hear.

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great story telling and keeps you guessing. well written and well read. best read of the year

loved it!

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This story had to be told and I'm so glad to have listened to it. Sad stories told with such warmth and humour. There's so much that goes on that we mostly know nothing about. We see the news, the snapshots but Daniel tells of the humanity. Don't want to say too much, but recommend it wholeheartedly.

This Story Had to be Told

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Such a moving and important story. Written with such honesty and capturing a child's perspective so well. Such an important voice and story to have unleashed into the world, that managed to carve its own path and stay true to his experience, avoiding feeling compelled to stay in one camp or the other. It was such a gift to listen to! Fantastic to have the author as the narrator too!

A Truly Wonderful Book!

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Having got into what was going on, his style of writing... I listened again. Then bought printed copies for friends.

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