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from Mae Jemison to W
author of Americanah
and refreshingly drama free
his peer mentor and tutor in college: Renny Ross
is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith
Martyr! (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel by Akbar, Kaveh from Mae Jemison to WCyrus 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 through Iranian battlefields
