Martyr!
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Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past--toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.
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Akbar, K. (2024). Martyr! First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. 2024. Martyr! New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh, Martyr! New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr! First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
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