The Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian (2012)
This novel tells of the Armenian genocide during World War I as told through the eyes of a young American woman, Elizabeth, who went to Syria in 1915 intent on assisting in the hospitals. There she meets a young widow, Arman, who is Armenian engineer. He lost his wife and baby daughter in the slaughter. Elizabeth writes of conditions in Aleppo where many of the Armenian refugees pass through. Arman joins the British Army and experiences the horrors of the war in Gallipoli.
Interspersed throughout the novel is the adult granddaughter of Elizabeth and Arman who becomes interested in her family history and tracks down her grandmother's writings.
Read: November 26, 2015
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