Classic City Readers: Martyr!

Classic City Readers is a longstanding book club dedicated to the appreciation and examination of the written word. Join Darcy on the third Wednesday of every month in the Close Community Room for a thoughtful and interesting literary discussion.

Library cards are not required to check out the books for this book club. Just stop by the desk on the Main Level of the library to pick up a copy of the current title.

On Wednesday, March 18, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm, we'll discuss Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.

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Description of Martyr! from Penguin Random House:

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.

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