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    PRESS RELEASE
    California State University, Fresno
    Armenian Studies Program
    5245 N Backer Ave PB4
    Fresno, CA 93740-8001
    Tel: 559-278-2669
    Fax: 559-278-2129


    New York Times Best-Selling Author Chris Bohjalian to Speak
    on `The Sandcastle Girls' April 14 at Fresno State


    New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalian will speak about
    his novel, `The Sandcastle Girls' at 2:00 PM on Sunday, April 14, 2013
    in the Leon and Pete Peters Educational Center (Student Recreation
    Center), on the Fresno State campus.

    Bohjalian will be making his first visit to Fresno on the occasion of
    the release of the paperback edition of The Sandcastle Girls . The
    talk, part of the Spring Lecture Series of the Armenian Studies
    Program, is co-sponsored by the Armenian National Committee of
    America-Central California. The lecture is funded in part by the Leon
    S. Peters Foundation and the Bertha and John Garabedian Foundation.

    The Sandcastle Girls is a gripping novel set in the period of the
    Armenian Genocide. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria,
    she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and
    only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It's 1915, and
    Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food and medical aid to
    refugees of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War. There
    she meets Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his
    wife and infant daughter. After leaving Aleppo and traveling into
    Egypt to join the British Army, he begins to write Elizabeth letters,
    realizing that he has fallen in love with the wealthy young American.

    Years later, their American granddaughter, Laura, embarks on a journey
    back through her family's history, uncovering a story of love,
    loss=80'and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.

    Chris Bohjalian is the author of sixteen books, including the New York
    Times bestsellers, The Night Strangers , Secrets of Eden , Skeletons
    at the Feast , The Double Bind , Before Your Know Kindness , and
    Midwives .

    Bohjalian's awards include the ANCA Arts and Letters Award for The
    Sandcastle Girls , as well as the Saint Mesrob Mashdots Medal; the New
    England Society Book Award for The Night Strangers ; the New England
    Book Award; a Boston Public Library Literary Light; and the Anahid
    Literary Award.

    Bohjalian graduated from Amherst College, and lives in Vermont with
    his wife and daughter.

    The lecture is free and open to the public.

    Free parking is available in all campus parking lots.

    For more information on the lecture please contact the Armenian
    Studies Program at 278-2669.

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