Darius the Great Is Not Okay

First of all, it is a great book. It's about the daily life of this boy Darius when he ends up going to Iran to meet his grandparents for some reasons. There he meets Sohrab and his life starts to change.Second of all, I can't begin to describe how relatable Darius was. Going through clinical depression, getting bullied and mocked in his High School, having all those Father Issues and much more. I felt like I was reading about my life or what could have been in my life if I ended up in a different country having a vacation.This book did make us feel what it set out to do. It was soothing, calming and made us sit for a while and rethink ourselves. Absolutely loved it!

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Darius the Great is not okay is a book about a guy who feels lost in the world and how a friendship helps him. This book is an ownvoices for Persian heritage and depression. Darius is a Fractional Persian—half, his mom’s side—and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life.I really liked this book I related a lot to Darius and he also loves tea so he was on my good side from the start. We all know depression is not easy and representing it properly I think is even more hard but Adib Khorram did such a great job. Also all the description of Persian food , Irani tourist attractions was so beautiful and done well. I have lived In oman for 3 years where we also had our little Indian community so Darius experiences of living in America i find myself relating a lot to those.“Everyone wants you here. We have a saying in Farsi. It translates ‘your place was empty.’ We say it when we miss somebody."I sniffed."Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”I am so finally a book with no HP refrences yessss this one was filled with refrences from LOTR and Star trek ( I guess I havent watched it but klingon is from there right ?) I also googled all the places and the food in the book which I suggest you do too Its really so amazing to see different cultures and their traditions which I wouldnt have otherwiseSO Overall a grear freakin read Darius was such a great character I started with a big grin on my face and happily it ended with that too just some tears in between.i was kind of bummed by the ending felt a bit open so Im happy there is a sequel which Im starting like right now

I always describe Darius as 'The Kite Runner' meets 'Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe'.I think that line perfectly encapsulates all that this book is about. It speaks about father-son relationships, it speaks about mental health and depression, about lovely grandparents, toxic masculinity and soft queer boys and identity and sense of belonging, and the beauty of friendship when we have been used to being lonely. Please, if there's one book I would recommend to the entire world, it'd be this book (and its sequel!).Find me talking about books on my insta @ZanyAnomaly

All those tears and all.This book talks about so many things: the representation of mental health (depression, therapy, stigma and the discrimination towards it), multicultural representation, the Persian culture and tradition; food and tea love; family and friendship; the sibling dynamics; and yes, also handling bullying, body shaming; coming of age representation. It also shows how a family copes with a member suffering with brain cancer. It also deals with identity and belongingness.I got super attached to all the characters! There's nothing like ten other side characters. Every character is my family now. The good, the bad and the damn fathers. Father issues. Lots of it here.This book gave me a lot more than what I had expected.I cried buckets and buckets starting from page 2.A good book is always a good book no matter what.My heart is still burning....Book memory: I hid the book under my pillows when there were only 10 pages left because I wasn't ready to get done with it so soon.Yes, NCT 127, ATEEZ, MCND, BTS helped me calm down in about 40 minutes and then I was able to finish reading it up."My face was experiencing some extreme thermal flux of its own."Hahahah!!! This author made me laugh out loud and cry at the same time.

A coming-of-age story of self-proclaimed “fractional Persian” Darius (he’s half Persian/half white), a teenage boy from Portland, OR who loves Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, and goes on a family trip to Iran for the first time to visit his mom’s family. Darius is a sweet and sensitive kid who is bullied at home, and makes his first really close friend in Iran with his grandparents’ neighbor Sohrab. Darius and his dad both struggle with depression, but their shared struggle doesn’t bring them together, things between them feel more awkward every day. Darius feels lonely, self-conscious, unsure, and unwanted in his own family, but dotes on his younger sister Laleh. Darius is just trying to figure himself out, deal with his strained relationship with his dad, his grandfather’s declining health, meeting his grandparents in person for the first time, trying to connect with his Persian roots, and feeling like he doesn’t fit in anywhere; too Persian in America and not Persian enough in Iran. His friendship with Sohrab is like a lifeline, and he feels fully accepted for the first time and appreciates Sohrab’s affectionate and understanding nature. This book is not a romance, and doesn’t really get into Darius’s sexuality, but that will be explored in the sequel. I just totally fell in love with Darius, Sohrab, and Darius’s parents and grandparents. This trip is really life changing for him and it was just beautiful to read about. I really didn’t want this book to end and immediately started the second book the moment I finished it. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was amazing. This book is going onto my all time favorite books list, I can’t even express how much I adored it.CW: Discussion of depression and its effects, racist comments, fatphobic comments, body-shaming, bullying

Libro en idioma ingles, pasta blanda sin sobre cubierta. Es una lectura agil y un ingles medio. Muy recomendable.

A beautiful story that I got the chance to read for school, I just wanted to travel into the book and be Darius' friend. Characters came alive and his story made me relate to him so much. A must read for youth!

This has been on my tbr list for far too long. It's an amazing story and I loved Darius and his nuances.The way his depression was dealt with really rang true for me; it was something I could identify with. Unlike the tea because, being (working class) British, tea comes in a teabag and is put in a mug, has boiling water added, is stewed for ages then milk and sugar (2 teaspoons please) added as required. 😉 Seriously though, the teas sound amazing.I really enjoyed the glimpse into Iranian life. As the author says in his interview, we are fed Iran through the filter of a news channel and it is nice to see and understand the everyday lives of Iranians.A really wonderfully written book that I highly recommend.

"Suicide isn't the only way you can lose someone to depression."This book was a solid 4 stars until the last page. Then it made me cry and that was it. Darius's story, the discovery of Iran, Persian culture, his friendship with Sorhab was really beautiful, endearing and touching. But it was the way depression is shown and the toll it takes on one's life and mind, without dramatising it, just by showing things as they are, that made this book really powerful and made me love it. I'm still shedding some tears from the after-read, but I just wanted to say, as someone who suffers from depression: Thank you.