02917cam a2200301 4500 1604770784 TxAuBib 20240923120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593824573 0593824571 01bf96f9-787e-4741-90cc-264beeafb7a1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9830593 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr [Libby] : A novel. Books on Tape, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 293MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 293MB. Fiction. Literature. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. “Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of There There “The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of Matrix and Fates and Furies 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. Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-09-23 20:00:03. Moayed, Arian. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=01bf96f9-787e-4741-90cc-264beeafb7a1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=01bf96f9-787e-4741-90cc-264beeafb7a1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)