Martyr! Anton Hur Through decades of research

Through decades of research

where the line between magic

none of them have all the features that make up his mommy

she still hasn’t found her missing parents

in the dark

Martyr! Anton Hur Through decades of researchKaveh Akbars Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaningin faith, art, ourselves, othersin which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mothers plane was shot down over the skies