A bereaved man's unhealthy obsessions are upended by a dying artist in the Iranian-American poet's kaleidoscopic debut novel Cyrus Shams really doesn't have much going for him. He is a barely recovering alcoholic and unpublished Iranian-American poet who scratches a living in Indiana by role-playing terminal patients for trainee doctors. His mother was blown out of the sky by the US navy - and even his name sounds like a criticism. Hardly surprising, then, that he would channel his search for me...
A bereaved man's unhealthy obsessions are upended by a dying artist in the Iranian-American poet's kaleidoscopic debut novel Cyrus Shams really doesn't have much going for him. He is a barely recovering alcoholic and unpublished Iranian-American poet who scratches a living in Indiana by role-playing terminal patients for trainee doctors. His mother was blown out of the sky by the US navy - and even his name sounds like a criticism. Hardly surprising, then, that he would channel his search for me...
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