AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT PRIZE
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE OBSERVER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, AND THE NEW YORKER
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Cyrus Shams has always been lost. He's grown up tangled in the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter, and his mother, whose plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby. Now, newly sober and ma ...