
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
by Christina
Fiction – print. Vintage, 2013. Originally published 2012. 299 pgs. Purchased. In 1915, Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria to help deliver food and medical aid to Armenian refugees. Women and children reach the city center in horrific condition, having been force marched across the desert without adequate food and water. Their husbands, fathers, and adult sons were accused of being traitors to the Ottoman Empire and killed in what would come to be known as the Armenian Genocide. Only […]
Categories: 2019 Reads, 20BooksofSummer, Fiction, Genocide, Middle East • Tags: Chris Bohjalian