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From W.B. E. Z. Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is the Nurdat Book Club. It's just like a regular book club except sometimes the author stops by. It is the month of March, and our selection

this time around is Kave Akbar's novel

Murder, Exclamation Point.

It is about Cyrus, who is an absolute mess,

but he is contending with a lot. He and his dad moved from

Iran to Indiana after his mom died when he was little. Since then his father has also

died and Cyrus is struggling with addiction. He has never slept well and

everything is deeply depressing. He's a poet but he's not sure what that even means

and he's haunted by existential questions about what makes life worth living and whether anything is worth dying for.

When he learns about an Iranian artist exploring similar questions at an exhibit in New York,

he hits the road to learn as much as he can.

That is all I am going to say for now since this is a spoiler-free conversation.

Kave welcome to Nurdett. Thank you so much for having me great. I'm so happy to be here.

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