02290cam a2200469 i 4500 1134351933 TxAuBib 20240220120000.0 230306s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023008466 9780593537619 HRD 28.00 0593537610 HRD 28.00 (OCoLC)1374316986 TxAuBib rda Akbar, Kaveh, author. Martyr! [BOOK] : a novel / Kaveh Akbar. Martyr. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. 331 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book"--Copyright page. "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.". 20240220. Brooklyn Museum Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Painters Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction. Poets Fiction. Alcoholics Rehabilitation Fiction. Iranian Americans Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. Martyrs Fiction. Inspiration Fiction. Women painters Fiction. Quests (Expeditions) Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) Fiction.