Martyr! Book cover type:Paperback she revives a wax witching

she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother

Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi

” Silas Makepeace has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast

—Caren Gussoff Sumption

twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate

Martyr! Book cover type:Paperback she revives a wax witchingKaveh Akbars Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaningin faith, art, ourselves, othersin which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness. Lauren