darius the great is not okay adib khorram

When I started this book, I knew that I would get emotional. It made me sad and happy and also very hungry. I have so many good things to say about it that I need to gather my thoughts before I can write a coherent review. 'Suicide isn't the only way you can lose someone to depression.'ĭarius the Great Is Not Okay and neither am I. And when Sohrab faces family issues of his own, Darius is powerless to help-or to hold their hard-won friendship together. Darius’s grandfather’s health is failing. Darius is drawn to the lonely boy who helps water his grandfather’s fig trees, and the two strike up a tentative friendship, filling their days with pick up soccer, trips to the Jameh Mosque, and walks through Dowlatabad Garden.īut things in Iran are far from perfect. Not until he meets Sohrab Rezaei, his grandparents’ Bahá’í neighbor. Even surrounded by Persians, he can’t fit in.

But Darius speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows the Silmarillion better than the Shahnameh.

He’s visiting his mother’s hometown, Yazd, to meet his family-and his ailing grandfather-for the first time. Then Darius goes to Iran for spring break (and despite what the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy say, it’s not to join ISIS). As the only Persian boy at his Portland high school, he’s an easy target for Trent Bolger and his Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy. He gave up on the Boy Scouts years ago-to his father’s lasting disappointment-and after being diagnosed with depression, he quit the neighborhood soccer club, too. Darius Kellner doesn’t make friends easily.

Darius the great is not okay adib khorram