![]() ![]() The narrator is his 10-year-old self, and his experienced innocence draws you in. Nayeri’s storytelling is slow, like someone savoring their memories. He’s the weird kid with stories no one believes, an abusive step-dad, and a mom who’s faith literally cost her life as she knew it. In America, he is Daniel, because no one can pronounce Khosrou. His large family were happy and his childhood is littered with memories of good food and fascinating adults with colorful stories. In Iran, he was Khosrou, the happy boy who lived in a beautiful house with birds in glass walls. He was born to a prominent family in Iran, escaped to Italy by way of Dubai where he and his sister lived as refugees with their mother, then immigrated to the United States-specifically, Oklahoma. More like this: How to read “Pride and Prejudice” along with the BBC miniseriesīig picture overview: This is the author’s memoir, written as narrative non-fiction. And because I was completely mesmerized by The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali, I was excited to read another story with origins in Iran. ![]() ![]() We’ve clung to these words through the darkest forests of grief, and they’ve brought us hope. It’s a phrase I remembered from Tolkien, made especially poignant to me after the death of my son’s best friend. ![]() When I spotted Everything Sad is Untrueby Daniel Nayeri in nearly every “best of” YA list for 2020, I was first struck by the title. ![]()
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