{"id":2068,"date":"2024-04-19T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/?post_type=mec-events&p=2068"},"modified":"2024-04-19T18:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T18:51:04","slug":"teen-book-club-darius-the-great-is-not-okay","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/events\/teen-book-club-darius-the-great-is-not-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Book Club: Darius the Great is Not Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you love to read? Are you looking for peers who share that love? Look no further than our Teen Book Club at the Aurora Library! We meet once a month to eat snacks and chat about our latest book pick. This month, join us for a discussion of Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone 13-19 is welcome to attend!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 28th @ 4 pm\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aurora Library\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDarius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He’s about to take his first-ever trip to Iran, and it’s pretty overwhelming\u2014especially when he’s also dealing with clinical depression, a disapproving dad, and a chronically anemic social life. In Iran, he gets to know his ailing but still formidable grandfather, his loving grandmother, and the rest of his mom’s family for the first time. And he meets Sohrab, the boy next door who changes everything.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sohrab makes sure people speak English so Darius can understand what’s going on. He gets Darius an Iranian National Football Team jersey that makes him feel like a True Persian for the first time. And he understands that sometimes, best friends don’t have to talk. Darius has never had a true friend before, but now he’s spending his days with Sohrab playing soccer, eating rosewater ice cream, and sitting together for hours in their special place, a rooftop overlooking the Yazdi skyline.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sohrab calls him Darioush\u2014the original Persian version of his name\u2014and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he’s Darioush to Sohrab. When it’s time to go home to America, he’ll have to find a way to be Darioush on his own.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you love to read? Are you looking for peers who share that love? Look no further than our Teen Book Club at the Aurora Library! We meet once a month to eat snacks and chat about our latest book pick. This month, join us for a discussion of Darius the Great is Not Okay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[5],"class_list":["post-2068","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-teen-prpograms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}