HPPR Radio Readers Book Club

Hello from Goodwell, Oklahoma! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. One component of the American Dream is choosing one’s home in the location of one’s choice. If the youthful narrator of Daniel Nayeri’s book Everything Sad Is Untrue was permitted to make this choice, I suspect he would have chosen to remain in Iran, in the comfortable home of his earliest childhood.

This is Linda Allen, a radio reader in Amarillo offering my thoughts on a unique true story titled Everything Sad is Untrue. Author Daniel Nayeri’s given name was Khousrou before he landed in the US and became known as Daniel, the simplification undergone by many immigrants over time to make their names more American and create a new identity.

Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda. We’re engaging with the second book of our Fall 2024 series Through the Eyes of a Child. An autobiographical novel, Everything Sad is Untrue recounts a life of exile, refuge and asylum as an immigrant family struggles to adjust to life in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Hello, High Plains! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. At first glance, the title Everything Sad Is Untrue might strike one as a bit of clichéd wishful thinking. The more I think about it, though, the more it seems right in line with all I know about fairy tales.

For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, KansasToday we’re talking about the book Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri. This is his story of what it was like coming from Iran to the United States.

Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Julie A. Sellers for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri explores story, memory, identity and flaws through the eyes of the author as a twelve-year-old Iranian refugee in Oklahoma.

Hello, High Plains! I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. Years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend an event in which Maya Angelou spoke to a full-house audience at my university.

Featuring tales of his family’s history stretching back for years and centuries, we learn Nayeri’s story of attending middle school as an immigrant in Oklahoma. This story ranged from Persia to refugee camps in Italy and finally to asylum in the U.S.

Like Alice, I grew up feeling like I was too big one day and too small the next. We’re finishing discussion of the classic Alice in Wonderland and I’ve been amazed at those who either haven’t read it or were surprised to find meaning in it today.

Hello everyone, this is Miriam Scott. I was born and raised in Germany and now live with my American husband and three teenage kids in Amarillo Texas where I am a priest for the Episcopal Church of St. Andrew.