Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Distinguished Lecture Series Books half-case 6

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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Distinguished Lecture Series Books half-case 6A Gibbes Book Club Selection Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mothers plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his fathers 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 pasttoward an uncle who rode