Book: Martyr!
Author: Kaveh Akbar
Pages: 352
This is my 190th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
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 he 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 gallergy that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.
This book was weird. I wanted to like it - it has been on my list a long time. But I just could not follow what a lot of people like about this one. It was disjointed and the "bombshell" of the book just made me mad.
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