# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Backlist Book Club: Martyr!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for our monthly book club discussion! All are welcome as we discuss Martyr! by Kaveh AKbar. You do not need to register, simply show up to chat about the book (be okay with spoilers if you haven't finished!). We will be joined by author KAVEH AKBAR via video for part of our discussion!

About the book: 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.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lafayette/backlist-book-club-martyr/200030116651109
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Sports, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 11

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Lafayette
- **state**: IN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904
- **lat**: 40.41686
- **long**: -86.87045
- **full address**: 2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Backlist Book Club: Martyr! being held?
  - **A:** Backlist Book Club: Martyr! takes place on Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm at 2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Backlist Book Club: Martyr!?
  - **A:** Backlist Book Club: Martyr! is organized by Second Flight Books.

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