Everything sad is untrue : (a true story)

Nayeri, Daniel (author,, narrator.).

Summary: 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 themoment 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 flowersbled 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).

Record details

ISBN: 9780593168400
ISBN: 0593168402
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (1 sound file (07 hr., 55 min., 36 sec.)) : digital
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [New York] : Listening Library (Audio), 2020.

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:	Read by the author.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed August 31, 2020).