The Audacious Book Club: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

In “Distress Tolerance,” an essay that Kaveh Akbar wrote a few years ago for my former publication Gay Magazine, he tells the story of a drunken bike accident that left him with a broken hip, something he didn’t realize until the following day. That incident, wrote Abkbar, was not the moment that turned him toward sobriety. It took several more years be…