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Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian is the author of 19 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, The Night Strangers, Skeletons at the Feast, and The Double Bind. His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah’s Book Club. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages, and three of his novels have become movies. Bohjalian’s most recent novel, The Sleepwalker, was published in Jan. 2017. Bohjalian’s awards include the ANCA Freedom Award for his work educating Americans about the Armenian Genocide; the ANCA Arts and Letters Award for The Sandcastle Girls; the Saint Mesrob Mashdots Medal; and the Anahid Literary Award.
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7 Comments

  1. I look forward to reading ‘The Sandcastle Girls’. I’m an aspiring novelist myself, though I prefer to write speculative fiction I’m also writing a novel about the genocide for my MFA thesis. I’d say there can never be enough stories about it. Every victim had their own story.

  2. There is always room for one more book about the Armenian Genocide, especially one in which feelings and auras about a time past can be recounted for those of us who experienced life with immigrant grandparents and also for those who have no clue about the Armenians and what they have suffered. Kudos to you for not giving up on your idea.

  3. Thank you, Chris Bohjalian, for making the right decision on writing this book about the Armenian Genocide. I agree with the previous two comments. Each time I look at the New Yorker’s booklist and I see yet another book on the Holocaust I think that we can NEVER have enough books on the Genocide. I also think that none of our books will ever reach the general public as the Holocaust books do.
    But you are the exception. Hopefully other writers will see why also and follow through too.
    Your writing is so creative and captiviating that I myself with Skeletons in the Closet was entralled until the end. Simply beautiful.
    I am very much looking forward to the new book.
    As a fellow Armenian-American, I thank you.

  4. Please excuse the previous error. I meant to say, “Skeletons at the Feast”.

  5. Sandcastle girls was one of my favorite books that you wrote. I was told about it by an Armenian friend of mine. Since then I read all of your books and am waiting for your new book in July. You are my favorite writer.

  6. I have just started reading sandcastle girls and on page 34 I spotted something that posed a question for me. Ryan Martin raised in Paulding OH. Is this a real person ? I am past president of of our historical soc. and this peeked my interest. Les

  7. My grandparents were born and lived in Aleppo and surrounds, until they migrated to America in 1912. I cannot recall every hearing of them or my father speak of the Armenian Genocide, so your Sandcastle Girls has been enlightening.
    Thank you for this moving and informative work.

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