Martyr!: A NovelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF

A visual tribute to Agnès Varda’s three lives as a photographer

/ 208 pgs / 228 color / 100 bw

selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells

Abandoned by their Dutch partner after giving up their home and their job to follow him to the Netherlands

“I see many things

and cobalt and sapphire and a calm-calm wata― velvet and kin to the moon brand new

Cyrus is a drunk

a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo

“The truth

mocks stereotypes

Garner has embedded her work in the world

original work of literary scholarship