|a Everything sad is untrue : |b (a true story) / |c Daniel Nayeri. |a YDX |b eng |e rda |c YDX |d BDX |d OCLCQ |d HBP |d UAP |d TCH |d ILC |d WHP |d ST |d EL Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. 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. 'At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Young Adult Fiction

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