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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.
Latest posts by Chris Bohjalian (see all)
- The Red Lotus - February 27, 2020
- Bohjalian: Putting a Face on the Refugee Crisis - October 16, 2016
- Bohjalian: Murder Cannot Be Hid Long. The Truth Will Out. - June 4, 2015
Thank you. this story warms the heart.
Possibly this is the ravine that has a wide and deep pit, a tributary to the Euphrates, where a 13 year old Zaza kid, on the way home back from school, told me verbatim: We threw all the ” Hristians” in that pit, to save the Republic.
I cried and laughed like a child, thanks Chris Bohjalian Hogid sirem, for this heartwarming story. Shnorhagal
How do we volunteer to do this type of clean-up?
Thank you, Chris Bohjalian, for this article. In a world often overwhelmed with greed, ugliness and despair, we all need to feel hope and see light wherever it may be found, even when it’s just a glimmer. Thank you also for your wonderful writing. I’m so looking forward to reading your latest novel.
So many simple acts can warm the heart.
Was the daughter the Kurdish man’s daughter or her mother’s daughter by another man.? That would mean she is half Armenian? Very poignant story and I am sad that the church is in such disrepear but aren’t they supposed to give us back our churches according to an order by the US Govt.
From “Tenth Elegy. Elegy in Joy.”
by Muriel Rukeyser
….
This moment, this seed, this wave of the sea, this look,
this instant of love.
Years over wars and an imagining of peace. Or the expiation journey
toward peace which is many wishes flaming together,
fierce pure life, the many-living home.
Love that gives us ourselves, in the world known to all
new techniques for the healing of a wound,
and the unknown world. One life, or the faring stars.