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Wandering Stars: Addiction Stories
Both Martyr! And Wandering Stars feature characters plagued by addiction. What differences did you find between these addiction stories? How wer…
Mar 26
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Roxane Gay
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Wandering Stars: Heritage Matters
Chapter 19 is called “Who Can Say Indian?,” and opens with Sean wondering whether or not he can say the word around Orvil, because Sean learned,…
Mar 22
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Roxane Gay
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Wandering Stars: Endurance
Let’s discuss the theme of endurance. Charles Star, right before he died, thought about how tired he was of enduring. Where else do you see both…
Mar 19
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Roxane Gay
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Wandering Stars: To Move Forward, We Look Back
In our discussion with Kaveh Akbar about his novel Martyr! last month, Kaveh mentioned that he and Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars, trad…
Mar 14
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Roxane Gay
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The Audacious Book Club: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange’s debut novel, There There, begins with a quote by Gertrude Stein that mirrors its title: “there is no there there.”Stein’s quote comes…
Mar 6
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Roxane Gay
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February 2024
Martyr! Big Questions
I want to talk about the last act of the novel, from the time Cyrus gets to the museum on day 4 until the end. What has this novel made you thin…
Feb 29
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Roxane Gay
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Martyr! Making Art, Making Time For Art
I loved the Roya chapter where she talked about fleeing to New York and becoming a working artist. She credits her big break to luck, but also t…
Feb 26
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Roxane Gay
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Martyr! On Day Dreams and Day Dreamers
Which of Cyrus’s dreams/daydreams did you like the most? Do you have go-to or recurring dreams/daydreams? I loved some of the pairings in the sc…
Feb 24
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Roxane Gay
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Martyr! What It Means to Listen
When you have a moment, listen to Allegri’s Miserere. What do you make of the story Cyrus’s uncle told him about this piece? When Cyrus said he’…
Feb 23
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Roxane Gay
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Martyr! The Meaning of... Everything
On Cyrus’s third visit to Orkideh, they discuss grief and art and the meaning of death. She says to Cyrus, “What I mean is, I think maybe you’ll…
Feb 20
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Roxane Gay
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Martyr! On Character...
After Cyrus’s first visit with Orkideh, he ties his shoes and thinks about what he wants (or thinks) his shoes represent: class antipathy, alleg…
Feb 16
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Roxane Gay
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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…
Feb 9
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