{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Iranian American writer discusses new novel about struggling with survivor's guilt","publication_date":"February 05, 2024","summary":"In 1988, amid the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. military accidentally shot down an Iranian commercial passenger jet, killing all 290 people aboard. That real-life tragedy sets in motion the fictional events in the new novel \"Martyr!\" a young Iranian American poet named Kaveh Akbar. Jeffrey Brown has the story for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.","author_name":"By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet, Alexa Gold","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2024\/02\/f12cf6890a4ae6355b3ed587e716e473-martyr-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}