And it is (a true story)- Book Synopsis Winner of the Michael L. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrous familys past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry Akh, Tamar! and touched carpets woven with precious gems. But Khosrous 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. 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. About the Book At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands, trying to tell a story.
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