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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
by Adib Khorram
Half-Iranian, depressed, going to Iran. He finds himself there.
For you if
you're a teenager who feels like you don't fully belong anywhere and need to see someone find their people in the last place they expected
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Darius is half-Iranian, half-white American, clinically depressed, a devoted Star Trek fan, and deeply unsure of where he belongs. When his family travels to Iran to visit his dying grandfather, Darius finds something he didn't expect: a best friend, a country that feels more like home than home does, and a version of himself he didn't know existed. Khorram writes about mental health, Iranian identity, and the immigrant family's relationship with the homeland with extraordinary specificity and warmth. The most complete Iranian American YA novel and the one that earns every feeling it asks you to have.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Iran • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Iranian author
- Themes
- Borderlands
