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Alcohol

This intoxicant serves as something of an antagonist throughout the novel.

BOOKOFMARTYRS.docx

This typescript is the protagonist’s work in progress.

Brooklyn

This storied subdivision of a major city in the United States serves as a major setting of the novel.

Chicken

This poultry fowl offers characters opportunity for economic improvement and social mobility.

Flight 655

This flight was shot down in the late 1980s, the event a rupture in the lives of several characters in the novel.

Indiana

This Midwestern state functions as a short-hand for normalcy in the United States.

Iran

This nation, often considered hostile by the Western world, gives rise to many of the characters in the text.

Keady

This university fosters relationships among some characters in the novel.

Shahnameh

This poem functions as an encapsulating document for one nation and is a repeated point of reference in the novel.

Urination

This natural...

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