ALLEN PARK, Mich.—Mitch Kehetian’s Giants of the Earth memoir on the search for his Aunt Parancim in Turkish-held Armenia is now in its third printing as a low-cost paperback version.
“I am elated that interested persons can now get the memoir at such a low cost, thanks to the publishing company of Publish America,” Kehetian said. The paperback version, like the soft cover memoir, is 160 pages with the same size, paper, and cover. The new paperback version allows the memoir to compete in the mass-market paperback industry.
Kehetian’s memoir takes readers on his journey to Turkish-held Armenia in 1969, when he was able to verify that Aunt Parancim, his father’s youngest sister, had survived the 1915-23 genocide that had led to the deaths of more than one million Armenians. She died six years before Kehetian arrived, in Kutluja in Keghi Province. Kehetian offered a prayer at her mountain-top gravesite that overlooks the western tributary of the Euphrates River.
Former Congressman Lucien Nedzi of Detroit, who helped Kehetian on his journey to Turkey’s depopulated eastern provinces, said, “I read your absorbing book in a day, since when I started I could not put it down. Your gripping account of your odyssey into Turkish Armenia certainly conveyed your intended message and deserves wide readership.”
Professor Dennis Papazian, the founder of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, said the memoir was “very emotional stuff, very personal. Shows the complexity of being an Armenian. A monument to the Armenians of Detroit. Abris.”
John M. Evans, the former U.S. ambassador to Armenia, wrote: “I just received ‘Giants of the Earth,’ I can hardly put it down.” Evans was removed from office by the Bush Administration for having defined the 1915 massacres as “genocide.”
“In all the chapters I read, tears filled my eyes and sometimes I cried,” said Rev. Dr. Vahan Tootikian, the executive director of the Armenian Evangelical World Council. “This is a moving story and it is written beautifully.”
Kehetian, 79, retired in 2005 after spending 52 years in newspaper reporting and editing in Michigan and Ohio.
The paperback version of Giants of the Earth is available online for $9.95, plus shipping costs. The popular soft-cover edition sells online for $29.95. To purchase, visit www.PublishAmerica.com, click on the Online Bookstore tab and list the paperback code “978-1-4512-4417-5” in the search box.
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