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\nAbout the book:
\n"A newly sober\, orphaned son of Ir anian immigrants\, guided by the voices of artists\, poets\, and kings\, e mbarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a term inally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Elect rifying\, funny\, and wholly original\, \;Martyr! \;heralds the ar rival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
\nCyrus Sha ms is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother&rsquo\;s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident\; and his father&rsquo\;s life in America was circums cribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyru s is a drunk\, an addict\, and a poet\, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past&mdash\;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.
\nKaveh Akbar&rsquo\;s \;Martyr! \;is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning&mdash\;in faith\, art\, ourselves\ , others."
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