TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khorram,Adib
TI  - Darius the Great is not okay
SN  - 9780525552963
AV  - PZ7.1.K5362 Dar 2018
U1  - FIC KHO 23
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Grandparents
KW  - Depression, Mental
KW  - Iranian Americans
KW  - Americans
KW  - Iran
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - 12 and up
N2  - Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life; "Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian -- half, his mom's side -- and his first ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes. Soon, they're spending their days together, playing soccer, eating faludeh, and talking for hours on a secret rooftop overlooking the city's skyline. Sohrab calls him Darioush -- the original Farsi version of his name -- and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Adib Khorram's brilliant debut is for anyone who's ever felt not good enough -- then met a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay"--
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