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#readaroundtheworld #armenia The son of the Main Character, is the author of this book taking us from his mother‘s deportation and exile from her Armenian home in Azizya through multiple refugee camps to her eventual betrothal in Greece. Along the way she loses her parents and siblings to massacres and despair. Written in a straight forward style with little emotional overtone it is nevertheless an important book about the Armenia diaspora.

The story of the author's mother as a young girl and her journey through Turkey as an Armenian refugee, and finally to America.
The pacing is a bit uneven, but the story is an important one, I think, and so worth the read.

I read this book in 1979. One of the librarians pulled this new book off the shelf and recommended that I read it. I did and learned so much about the Armenian genocide and a few years later, and won an award for an 8th grade history project. Never forget.

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