Port Orchard Book Group

About this event

The Port Orchard Library book group meets monthly on the third Tuesday of every month to discuss both fiction and nonfiction. Each month's book will be available at the Port Orchard library a month before the discussion. This month's book: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar From the Publisher: 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. Martyr!

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