Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar Beartown And why won’t anyone believe

And why won’t anyone believe her

Soon a team starts to take shape around Amat

has fallen over the world

And where there is no mercy

Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar Beartown And why won’t anyone believeCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mothers plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his fathers 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 pasttoward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields