Darius the Great is Not Okay
By: Adib Khorram
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Pages: 316
Published: 2018
Read: January
3 out of 5 stars
This is my second reading of this book. I reread it for a Battle of the Books challenge with librarians. I did enjoy it more the second time around. My favorite aspect of the story is that the protagonist is a male dealing with depression. There have been a lot of YA books dealing with mental health in the past few years, but not with male characters. I think it’s important for male teens to see they aren’t alone. I also appreciate the fact that it was multicultural and educational. It was almost like a nonfiction book inside a fictional story. But this also negatively impacted the story, the Persian facts often interrupted the story line. Most would have been better included in back or even a companion book to this novel. Khorram did include an afterword about the seriousness of depression with links to websites for additional information or help.
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