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Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!: a Novel (2024, Knopf) 5 stars

Poet Akbar (Calling a Wolf a Wolf) explores the allure of martyrdom in this electrifying …

A novel written by a poet

4 stars

It was good! There was a plot point early on that kind of fucked with my suspension of disbelief and bugged me like a splinter the whole rest of the read, and some neatness in the plot that I wasn't totally buying/in the mood for. But I'm a sucker for expert prose, subtly handled subject matter, and readability so it won me over.