The
systematic slaughter of the Armenian Christians by the Turkish Muslims is a
primarily overlooked piece of history. In 1915, under the guise of national
security – Turkey was allied with Germany in WW I and accused the Armenians of
siding with the British – an estimated 1,000,000+ Armenian men, women, and
children were exterminated. Author Chris Bojalian has created a novel of great
sensitivity and honesty without sensationalizing a topic that needs none.
Moving
between contemporary America and 1915 Aleppo, Bojalian brings together a moving
portrait of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances and their
attempts to try to fix or alleviate the horrors they find surrounding them. Sandcastle Girls paints a clear picture
of lives and circumstances without excessively graphic descriptions and
succeeds in making its points and telling its stories without driving the
reader away. It was emotionally hard to read, but impossible to put down.
CAS
Non-fiction follow up: Burning Tigris by Peter Balakian
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