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Darius the Great Is Not Okay

by Adib Khorram

Ages: 14+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Dial Books/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-5255-5296-3

Keywords: Mental Health, Iranian Americans

Teen Darius suffers from clinical depression. When he travels to Iran to meet his grandparents he meets Sohrab, another teen, who changes Darius's whole perception of himself.