The Palace of Forty Pillars Style:Paperback it reawakens Ash's capacity for

it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live

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

It turns out that on the other side of the wall

as has everything else in his life

The Palace of Forty Pillars Style:Paperback it reawakens Ash's capacity forBy 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