Martyr!

By Kaveh Akbar

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Cyrus Shams, a newly sober Iranian American poet whose mother died when a U.S. warship shot down her plane, searches for meaning in his own death and meets a dying artist in Brooklyn.

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