# Everything Sad Is Untrue

**Author:** Daniel Nayeri
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2020
**Page count:** 372
**ISBN-13:** `9781646140022`
**ISBN-10:** `1646140028`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/everything-sad-is-untrue
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Now in paperback! WINNER: MICHAEL L. PRINTZ AWARD • CHRISTOPHER AWARD • MIDDLE EAST BOOK AWARD • WALTER DEAN MYERS AWARD HONOR BEST OF THE YEAR: NPR • New York Times • Amazon • Booklist • BookPage • Publishers Weekly • Wall Street Journal • Today.com From national bestselling author Daniel Nayeri comes a sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it? “A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee,” Nayeri writes early in the novel. In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family’s histo

## Where this book is assigned

### Michael L. Printz Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2021 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
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