Kaveh Akbar

Wonderful book, truly makes you think! 

Martyr!*, the 2024 debut novel by Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar, tells the story of Cyrus Shams, a troubled young man searching for meaning in life. Cyrus, a recovering alcoholic and poet, grapples with addiction, depression, and insomnia. He's also haunted by the 1988 air disaster that killed his mother, and must cope with his father's death

Questions about faith, your perception of your parents as a child VS when you get older. Brings up so many different subjects but they all tie together perfectly.

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A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR “Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of There There “The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of Matrix and Fates and Furies 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. Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.

Martyr!

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Michel Foucault

Super interesting book about laws of punishment throughout centuries.
Lots of thoughts on society and the idea we have of punishment, the spectacle of it, and what it’s supposed to be. 
Definitely a great read 

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The Birth of the Prison

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.

In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

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