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SUMMARY:Antwerpen Book Club Meetup August 2026 - Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
LOCATION:Luddites Books & Wine
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 31% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nA newly sober\, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants\, guid
 ed 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 livi
 ng out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying\, funny\, and w
 holly original\, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in 
 contemporary fiction.\n\nCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inhe
 ritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the sk
 ies 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 obsessio
 n with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an un
 cle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to
  inspire and comfort the dying\, and toward his mother\, through a paintin
 g discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been
  who or what she seemed.\n\nKaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spe
 nd our lives seeking meaning—in faith\, art\, ourselves\, others.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/antwerpen-book-club-meetup/events/315712660/
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STATUS:TENTATIVE
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