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Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593537619
- ISBN: 0593537610
- Physical Description: 331 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book" |
| Awards Note: | National book award finalist, fiction 2024 |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan County Library | AF AKB (Text) | 35319000380017 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
