Martyr! ...Middle East

In Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He’s a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded a plane in Tehran to visit her brother in Dubai. A U.S. missile mistakenly shot it down, and she was gone. His father, suddenly a widower and single parent, moved himself and his young son to the American Midwest. While his father headed to work on a poultry ranch, young Cyrus was plagued by night terrors, and nearly 30 years later, he’s still grappling with existential questions and overwhelming grief. Forever shaken by the senselessness of his mother’s death, and reeli

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