Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri
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Web ID: 14352729Magnificent
One of the best books I have read in awhile. The cover is such a beautiful representation of the book itself; a vast energetic, whirling narrative, where nothing quite moves in a straight line and everything is connected. Khosrou’s (Daniel's) exuberant, tragic, funny tales become the one grand tale of an Iranian immigrant's difficult journey to and life in the United States of America. A deserved winner of the 2021 Printz Award and a must read!
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Great audiobook not just for YA
A sweet, young boy is telling his life stories at the front of the class. The narrator for the audio is a grown man telling family stories from his childhood memory (the language/mentality is of a young boy). It made me chuckle quite a few times and who couldn’t use a few more smiles in their day? I also learned a few things about a young man’s view of being a grandson, son, refugee, and what it is to be different from the other kids in the classroom. Highly recommend this audiobook. The narrator happens to be the author, so his emotions while telling the stories are spot-on adding quite a bit of charm to story. Labeled as a YA book, I believe it will keep the interest of adult readers.
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This is NOT a story!
Everything you read about this book is true. It is dazzling. It is heartbreaking. It a story that probably only Daniel could tell. But it wasn't the dazzle or the heartbreak, or the stories Oklahoma, Ardestan, Isfahan, Dubai. It wasn't the jasmine that grew on the courtyard walls, or the many and varied stories of p...p [which, in context, do make sense] or his mother's steadfastness and unconditional love that make this a story to remember. This is NOT a story. This is a tale. Daniel is your storyteller in the ancient Persian tradition of Scheherazade and A 1001 Arabian Nights, and you are the wise, maybe slightly evil, reader, who, although you can reject his tale, must be kept entertained. This book made me wish I had one of Mr. Abbas's not really Turkish rugs under me, lots of pillows to lay on, a cooling fountain close by, a pot of tea, sesame cookies and maybe cream puff full of rosewater scented cream as I read. If you look at this as just another immigrant kid story, you would be wrong. You would be thinking in the linear, westernized story telling technique; a beginning, a middle and an end. You must not be swayed by the reviewer's hype or the fabulous cover, or the number of pages [if that sort of thing appeals to you]. Read this because you are open to a different way tales are told, to being wooed as a reader, to being valued, because from the first sentence Daniel is making you a promise. What could be more true than that?
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Incredible book!
Daniel Nayeri weaves a tale like no other. I laughed at times and was brought to tears at others. This story about a refugee boy living in Oklahoma is raw and poignant and real. A must buy for every book club and school!
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