A review by jennywithaz
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

5.0

This book blew me away...hands down, my favorite 2020 book I've read so far this year. My reader's heart lives for that excited feeling you get when you discover a new author whose voice is so fresh, so exuberant, so brazen in its willingness to take you for a ride on his own terms, whether you're ready for it or not. What Daniel Nayeri delivers in his refugee story is just that -- his voice and storytelling style are uniquely his own, and when he jumps from his scarce precious memories of his grandparents in Iran, to the myths of Persia, and back to his 7th grade Oklahoma classroom with its chorus of Jareds and Jennifers who question his every word, you feel compelled to go along for the ride with him. Funny, painful, poignant...this is utterly riveting, compelling stuff.