Darius the Great Is Not Okay
by Adib Khorram
"Darius has never fit in anywhere — until a boy in Yazd teaches him the Farsi word for friend."
Fractional Persian, clinically depressed and fluent mainly in tea and Tolkien, Darius Kellner travels to Iran for the first time to meet his dying grandfather — and meets Sohrab, the first friend who makes him feel like enough. A gorgeous, gentle book about depression, family and belonging in two languages.
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Winner of the William C. Morris Award for best YA debut.
