Cover image for Martyr!
Title:
Martyr!
Format:
Book
ISBN:
9780593537619
Summary:
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--

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.
Library
Shelf Number
Status
CCLD Elfrida Library
FIC AKBAR
Adult Fiction
CCLD Portal (Myrtle Kraft Library)
FIC AKBAR
Adult Fiction
Douglas Public Library
F AKBAR
New Material
Sierra Vista Public Library
F AKBAR
Adult Fiction