Darius the Great is not okay / Adib Khorram.

By:

Khorram, Adib [author.]

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780525552970

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 808.899283 K52 2019

LOC classification:

PZ7.1.K5362 Dar 2019b

Awards:

Winner of the Morris and Apala Awards.

Summary: 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.Summary: "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 Persian version of his name--and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab." -- Back cover

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Fiction	College Library Fiction Section	GC	Fic 808.899283 K52 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	HNU005232

First published in 2018 by Dial Books.

Series information from Goodreads.com
"First published in the United States of America by Dial Books." -- Title page verso
Includes an interview with the author and an excerpt from Darius the Great Deserves Better

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 Persian version of his name--and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab." -- Back cover