Book Review: Martyr!
I’m not usually a literary genre person but I saw the hype about Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and gave it a try. PROS: Interesting perspective of Iranian man. He comes to the USA and has common problems (fitting in as a gay man, battling addiction, struggling with injustice.) The repeated mentions of the US Navy shooting down an Iranian civilian flight is a good reminder about that crime. CONS: No real drive to the plot. I get this is a side effect of the literary genre, but it was too… Read More »Book Review: Martyr!
