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"It took me some time to get into this book. It feels very disjointed at first as it builds the characters and allows each of them to have a voice. I would have rated it higher if I had enjoyed the first half of the book as much as I enjoyed the se..."
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"By all intents and purposes, I should’ve liked this book. I found Cyrus‘s quest for martyrdom fascinating, and his conversations with Orkideh riveting. The glimpses into the lives of Ali, Roya, and Zee rounded out the story in a way I thought it w..."
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"I did not enjoy this book as much as many reviewers have, but I enjoyed it as much as the other 3 star reviewers have. There's not much more I can say that many others haven't already.
The prose and the poetry were wonderful, but like many other..."
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"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"--
