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📖 Darius the Great is not Okay

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👤 Author
Adib Khorram
📚 Genre
Fiction
🎯 Interest Level
MG+
📊 ATOS Book Level
4.7
🔢 Quiz No.
198253
📝 Word Count
67,923
🔗 Series
🏷️ Topic
Award Winners-Asian/Pacific American Award for Literat; Award Winners-Lambda Literary Awards winner/finalist; Countries/Regions-Iran; Medical Conditions-Depression & Anxiety; People-Grandparents; Recommended Reading-Junior Library Guild Selection;

🌟 Recommendation Details

Darius the Great Is Not Okay follows the personal journey of Darius Kellner, an Iranian–American teenager with clinical depression, as he makes a best friend for life, meets and tries to reconnect with his grandparents in Iran, and repairs his relationship with his father. I would recommend this story to people of *nearly all ages since it introduces the world from a teenager's perspective, and as he survives a dark time in his life. I particularly liked Darius's complex relationship to his father and how depression had affected both of them. I loved how much I learnt about Iran from it, too, and all the descriptions of food were amazing.

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