The teacher tells him that in America we cherish historical things, and he thinks of his grandfather’s 600-year-old house ina walled garden lined with mosaic tiles, with a fountain and fruit trees. The class trip to a 98-year-old sod house, now a museum. There’s his hilarious comparison of American and Iranian bathroom hygiene, when he is finally invited to a friend’s house and tries to figure out how to clean himself. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 4 hours and 4 minutes to read Everything Sad Is. His wide-eyed wonder at American ways makes us see them in a new light. Everything Sad Is Untrue Daniel Nayeri 4.35 19,721 ratings3,824 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls 'Daniel') stands, trying to tell a story. Bibliographic information Title Everything Sad Is Untrue Author Daniel Nayeri. Gradually we learn how the 3-year-old watching his grandfather kill a bull in Iran became the 12-year-old in Edmond fleeing a brutal stepfather, but remained optimistic about the future. His autobiographical novel, Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) was the winner of the Michael L. He tells us stories of many generations as well as his beloved nuclear family, especially his unstoppable mother. Though I’m accustomed to an old-fashioned, chronological account, with perhaps a few backwards glances, this is not difficult reading. The narrator takes us back and forth and round and round, citing Scheherazade, who told a new tale every night to fend off execution.
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