I ❤️ loved this book because...
Daniel's story is reflective and circular in an ingenious and charming way and, overall, utterly enchanting.
Daniel makes himself so vulnerable here—to the seventh graders he is purportedly attempting to convince about the truth of his stories and to us, the reader. The choice to tell his story (true to his own memories) from the perspective of his childhood self makes that vulnerability all the more acute.
I could not put the book down, and when it was over, I found myself touched, a little shaken, and left with that magical feeling (often hard to find today) of being more connected to life and the human race.
8 authors picked Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 10, 11, 12, and 13.
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…
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