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Author Akbar, Kaveh, author.

Title Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
9 holds on first copy returned of 30 copies

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  F AKBAR, K.    DUE 04-30-24
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  FICTION AKBAR    DUE 05-09-24
 Canton Public Library - Adult New Materials  FICTION AKBAR    DUE 05-04-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Main Level  FICTION AKBAR    DUE 05-08-24
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - New Materials  FICTION AKBAR, KAVEH    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - New Materials  FIC AKBAR    DUE 05-08-24
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  F AKBAR KAVEH    DUE 05-01-24
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  F AKB NEWBKS    DUE 03-29-24 Billed
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  F AKBAR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  FIC AKBA    DUE 04-23-24

Edition First edition.
Description 331 pages ; 25 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi book"
Summary 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.
Subject Immigrants -- Fiction.
Painters -- Fiction.
Terminally ill -- Fiction.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction.
Iranian Americans -- Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels (OCoLC)fst01921742
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9780593537619 (hardcover)
0593537610 (hardcover)
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