![]() Her conversion was a death sentence in Iran, so the family fled-without her baffled husband. But it’s Daniel’s mother who is the hero of this book, which released in 2020 and was named a book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal. ![]() I laugh every time I think about Daniel’s father visiting him in Oklahoma and insisting that he can speak English-while talking to Daniel in front of his class in Farsi. Like when I won the tetherball tournament at recess against Trevor and I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t been there at all.” He writes about his mother working with immigration officials: “It was like sticking a wrinkly dollar into a candy machine over and over and having it spit the dollar out over and over, for a year, with a gun to your head.” From the perspective of his childhood he observes that Americans “think we’re bad people who will come and take their stuff. ![]() Writing as his younger self lends tension and anguish to Nayeri’s already dramatic story of escape from Iran. Then call him Robert Frost, because Everything Sad Is Untrue will bring you to tears. Nayeri writes that sadness turns perfectly normal people into poets. ![]()
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