The Sandcastle Girls (Vintage Contemporaries)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a sweeping historical love story that probes the depths of love, family, and secrets amid the Armenian Genocide during WWI. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It's 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War. There she meets Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. After leaving Aleppo and traveling into Egypt to join the British Army, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, realizing that he has fallen in love with the wealthy young American. Years later, their American granddaughter, Laura, embarks on a journey back through her family's history, uncovering a story of love, loss--and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!
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Wow. I was in a class in college with a young woman who was Armenian and told me there had been a genocide. That was around 1999 or 2000. I honestly had never heard of it up until that point, and until the Kardashians came along, never heard about it again. I still didn't know why, or the facts or details. This book is a historical fiction novel; so while the characters are not real, the events are based on real history. I don't understand why this isn't taught in World History. As the book asks, how do 1.5 million people disappear and no one knows about it? I'm so thankful Chris Bohjalian wrote this book and I highly recommend it to anyone high school age or older. Yes, it's graphic, but if they're teaching about the Haloucaust and slavery, they should be teaching this as well.
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