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Daniel Nayeri – Everything Sad is True [order here]
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd at 7PM EDT
The next author in the Reader Meet Writer series is Daniel Nayeri. Nayeri is the author of several books for young readers, including Straw House, Wood House, Brick House Blow: Four Novellas.
Nayeri will be talking with us THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd at 7PM EDT about his new book as well as answering your questions.
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 camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset 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). It is Daniel’s.
Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Edmond, Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is a former professional pastry chef, and if he’s not writing or baking, he’s likely playing board games, or riding motorcycles. He lives with his family in New Jersey.
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Attendance is limited.
If you elect to attend, we will email you on Thursday morning (9/3) with the link to attend this virtual event, plus the link to purchase books. If you purchase the book through our website we will automatically send you the login information you need to join the event. If you ordered by phone please RSVP above.
Happy Reading!