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SUMMARY:Cool Girl Book Club
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LOCATION:3800 North Goldwater Boulevard\, Scottsdale\, AZ\, USA
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for a casual book discussion off-site at Cornish Past
 y in Scottsdale!\n\nThis month's book is Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.\n\nA newl
 y sober\, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants\, guided by the voices of art
 ists\, poets\, and kings\, embarks on a remarkable search for a family sec
 ret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days i
 n the Brooklyn Museum. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheri
 tance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the sk
 ies 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 far
 m in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk\, an addict\, and a poet\, whose obsess
 ion with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward a
 n uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of deat
 h to inspire and comfort the dying\, and toward his mother\, through a pai
 nting 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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