The Palace of Forty Pillars Style:Paperback but trapped in a conservative

but trapped in a conservative religious society

For readers of Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black for its expansive fantasy world

and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s

this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours

The Palace of Forty Pillars Style:Paperback but trapped in a conservativeBy Armen Davoudian Brilliant and deft and heartfelt."Richie Hofmann Wry, tender, and formally innovative, Armen Davoudians debut poetry collection, The Palace of Forty Pillars, tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran, and an immigrant in America. It is a story darkened by the long shadow of global tragediesthe Armenian genocide, war in the Middle East, the specter of homophobia. With