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    "description": "\nCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother\u2019s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father\u2019s 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\u2014toward 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.\n\nKaveh Akbar\u2019s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning\u2014in faith, art, ourselves, others.",
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