![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They ask what the bathrooms in Iran look like, and how the toilets work. Some of its most authentic and clever moments are when Khosrou’s classmates interrupt his stories. “Everything Sad Is Untrue” is a love letter to storytelling. Khosrou spins these tales like a modern-day Scheherazade: He understands the manipulative nature of storytelling, how he can use it to string his classmates along. In the stories he weaves, Khosrou’s family is not poor but had their land stolen generations ago, and his dad is still with him. He has a treasure chest of memories and family myths. Miller’s class, Khosrou is a storyteller. His father is just a voice on the phone his mother, who was a doctor in Iran, has to work different jobs to make ends meet his classmates shoot paper clips at his neck.īut in Mrs. ![]() In Oklahoma, things aren’t great for Khosrou. Khosrou lives in Oklahoma, having fled Iran with his sister and his mother, whom the secret police threatened for practicing Christianity. In this epic tale, our hero is Khosrou, a 12-year-old boy named after a real king. In “Everything Sad Is Untrue,” Daniel Nayeri weaves an equally rich history of his family’s journey from Iran to America. Many came from the “Shahnameh,” an epic Persian poem that weaves the history of Iran like a colorful tapestry. When I was growing up, my bedtime stories involved great warriors and kings, the heroes of ancient Persia. EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (A True Story) By Daniel Nayeri ![]()
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