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Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, 2024
CALL NO...: 12-BOO
TYPE......: Book
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A newly sober Iranian American poet obsessed with meaningful death goes looking for it in a museum, where a terminally ill artist is dying in public as her final work. A National Book Award finalist, and extraordinary on addiction, grief, and art made out of a failing body.
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Available at most public libraries and from Alfred A. Knopf.