The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage. 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. The year is and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to help deliver food and medical . Chris Bohjalian’s fifteenth book, the historical novel The Sandcastle Girls (), was chosen as a Book of the Week by Oprah Winfrey and received positive reviews from publications such as USA Today. Beginning in the present day, a young woman, Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in New York, is married with two children. Paula McLain. author of The Paris Wife. “In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives — in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting.
The Sandcastle Girls is all that, but different, more powerful." — The Seattle Times "In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives—in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. Chris A. Bohjalian (Armenian: Քրիս Պոհճալեան) is an Armenian-American novelist and the author of 20 novels, including Midwives (), The Sandcastle Girls (), The Guest Room (), and The Flight Attendant (). Bohjalian's work has been published in over 30 languages, and three of his novels have been adapted into films. Bohjalian's The Flight Attendant has been adapted. THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS. by Chris Bohjalian ‧ RELEASE DATE: J. The granddaughter of an Armenian and a Bostonian investigates the Armenian genocide, discovering that her grandmother took a guilty secret to her grave. Laura, the narrator of Bohjalian's latest, is doing genealogical research, attempting to learn more about a fact that.
Paula McLain. author of The Paris Wife. “In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives — in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting. Chris Bohjalian’s fifteenth book, the historical novel The Sandcastle Girls (), was chosen as a Book of the Week by Oprah Winfrey and received positive reviews from publications such as USA Today. Beginning in the present day, a young woman, Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in New York, is married with two children. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian is a powerful and unforgettable historical novel depicting the Armenian Genocide. It is an epic story of love and war that will leave you pondering on the facts long after you have finished this novel. This Novel is set in two timeframes. The past to and the present.
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