‘Never Hide from the Devil’: A haunting tale of courage against erasure

Inspired by a true story of resistance during the Armenian Genocide, this stirring coming-of-age novel is a parable of courage and impossible choices in the midst of unimaginable horror. The government wants them dead. Fourteen-year-old Suren Simonian, an Armenian, lives as most boys his age do in the city of Van, eastern Anatolia. He goes to school, gawks at boys’ fistfights and does his best to avoid the Turkish gendarmes. Most days, he spends with his Turkish best friend, Hamza. Bu