Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

Before the release of his breakout novel, ‘Martyr’, Akbar was a poet. Every reader can find themselves in Akbar’s work—when he speaks of addiction, faith, love, and all of his desires written with lyrical genius. The words in this collection admit that though we are flawed and filled with shortcomings, we are also worthy of acceptance in whatever ways we show ourselves to the world. 

Calling a Wolf a Wolf can be a companion book to Cyrus Shams, or a book the character may even write himself.