Martyr! Kaveh Akbar. 2025.

Cyrus Shams has always been lost. He's grown up tangled in the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode a horse through Iranian battlefields, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter, and his mother, whose plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby: Now, newly sober and maybe in love, he's heading for an encounter that will transform everything he thought he knew. Can a final revelation change the truth of Cyrus's life?