I will carry this story and the people in it with me for the rest of my life JOHN GREEN author of The Fault in Our Stars Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction 2024 named a best book of 2024 by The New York Times Amazon CBS and TIME and on Barack Obama s Summer Reading List 2024 This book vibrates with love of life beauty and language I m in awe Natalie Portman Smart dazzling different This book is thrilling Ann Patchett author of Tom Lake I haven t stopped thinking about it Sensational Daily Mail Nothing short of miraculous Junot Diaz New York Times A kaleidoscopic debut Guardian A literary gem Martyr invites you to read with a highlighter in hand Observer Elegant dizzying playful Lauren Groff author of Matrix Martyr is an astounding debut The Irish Times Brilliant LA TIimes Reading Martyr Is a delight The Washington Post Cyrus Shams has always been lost He s grown up tangled in the mysteries of his past an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields a haunting work of art by an exiled painter and his mother whose plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby Now newly sober and maybe in love he s headed for an encounter that will transform everything he thought he kne