The interview has been edited for length and clarity. It is not author Daniel Nayeri’s memoir, but it is his story, and he talked about crafting it via Zoom from Nashville while on a family vacation. 25), 12-year-old Khosrou, now Daniel, becomes a modern-day Scheherazade, weaving Persian legend, his family’s history, and his own imperfect memory into an intricately layered, gorgeous work. In Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story) (Levine Querido, Aug. Little Khosrou’s life in Isfahan, Iran’s third-largest city, is upended when his mother abruptly and publicly converts to Christianity, prompting his parents’ divorce and sending Khosrou, his older sister, and their mother to Abu Dhabi, then an Italian refugee camp, and, finally, Edmonds, Oklahoma.
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