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SLCL FOUNDATION PRESENTS DISCUSSION AND SIGNING OF BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHRIS BOHJALIAN, 4/16
Broadway World
March 29 2013
The St. Louis County Library Foundation is pleased to present
bestselling author Chris Bohjalian for a discussion and signing of his
latest novel "The Sandcastle Girls" on Tuesday, April 16, at 7:00 p.m.
at Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available
for purchase at the event from Barnes & Noble.
The event is co-sponsored by the International Institute of St. Louis.
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist
Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys.
"Midwives" brought us to an isolaTed Vermont farmhouse on an icy
winter's night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. "The Double
Bind" perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island-and a
young social worker's descent into madness. And "Skeletons at the
Feast" chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and
Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The Washington Post Book
World has noted, Bohjalian writes "the sorts of books people stay
awake all night to finish."
In his fifteenth book, "The Sandcastle Girls," he brings us on a very
different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between
Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012-a sweeping
historical love story steeped in the author's Armenian heritage,
making it his most personal novel to date.
When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from
Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the
most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is
spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the
Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to
refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth meets Armen,
a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant
daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt,
he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he
has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman.
Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist
living in suburban New York. Laura has never really given her Armenian
heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have
seen a newspaper photo of Laura's grandmother, Laura embarks on a
journey back through her family's history that reveals love, loss,
and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.
Program sites are accessible. Upon two weeks notice, accommodations
will be made for persons with disabilities. Contact St. Louis County
Library by phone 314-994-3300 or visit http://www.slcl.org.
http://books.broadwayworld.com/article/SLCL-Foundation-Presents-Discussion-and-Signing-of-Bestselling-Author-Chris-Bohjalian-416-20130329
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Broadway World
March 29 2013
The St. Louis County Library Foundation is pleased to present
bestselling author Chris Bohjalian for a discussion and signing of his
latest novel "The Sandcastle Girls" on Tuesday, April 16, at 7:00 p.m.
at Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available
for purchase at the event from Barnes & Noble.
The event is co-sponsored by the International Institute of St. Louis.
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist
Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys.
"Midwives" brought us to an isolaTed Vermont farmhouse on an icy
winter's night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. "The Double
Bind" perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island-and a
young social worker's descent into madness. And "Skeletons at the
Feast" chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and
Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The Washington Post Book
World has noted, Bohjalian writes "the sorts of books people stay
awake all night to finish."
In his fifteenth book, "The Sandcastle Girls," he brings us on a very
different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between
Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012-a sweeping
historical love story steeped in the author's Armenian heritage,
making it his most personal novel to date.
When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from
Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the
most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is
spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the
Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to
refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth meets Armen,
a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant
daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt,
he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he
has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman.
Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist
living in suburban New York. Laura has never really given her Armenian
heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have
seen a newspaper photo of Laura's grandmother, Laura embarks on a
journey back through her family's history that reveals love, loss,
and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.
Program sites are accessible. Upon two weeks notice, accommodations
will be made for persons with disabilities. Contact St. Louis County
Library by phone 314-994-3300 or visit http://www.slcl.org.
http://books.broadwayworld.com/article/SLCL-Foundation-Presents-Discussion-and-Signing-of-Bestselling-Author-Chris-Bohjalian-416-20130329
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress