Bookmoot: Everything Sad is Untrue

The Rabbit Room’s Bookmoot selection for the month of July is Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri. Grab the book from Store.RabbitRoom.com or your favorite book shop, and then join us at North Wind Manor on July 20th @ 7pm where we’ll discuss it together. 

Everything Sad Is Untrue

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 the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee…