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

And why won’t anyone believe her

Jason’s life is not the one he knows

But rivalries are high

and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face

forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity…

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