Martyr!
Martyr!Kaveh Akbar
Characters in Martyr!
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Cyrus Shams
A newly sober Iranian-American poet obsessed with martyrdom, researching a book about people whose deaths carried meaning.
Supporting characters
Ali Shams
Cyrus's father, an Iranian immigrant farm worker who raised him in rural Indiana and died when Cyrus reached adulthood.
Zee
Cyrus's roommate, closest friend, and sometime romantic partner, who accompanies him to New York.
Arash
Cyrus's uncle, an Iran-Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD who served as a battlefield 'angel of death.'