Sand Castle Girls

Sand Castle Girls Book Description The Sand Castle Girls novel by American bestselling author Chris Bohjalian, published for the first time in Turkish, invites us to the gripping story of the Bedrosyan family, from Anatolia to Aleppo and from there to America. Young writer Laura Bedrosyan, while remembering her childhood spent in a suburb of New York and Miami, the Oriental carpets at home, the hookah pipes lying around unused, and the books written in a language she could not decipher, found herself struggling to write about her grandfather Armen with the stories that started to be told after his death. He finds himself returning to an event that he tried and failed. The silences, secrets within the family, and the inexplicable sadness that falls on them at unexpected times, "like every Armenian story", take Laura to 1915, to Aleppo. Headstrong young missionary Elizabeth, Armen who was separated from his wife and daughter during the deportation, silent and little orphan Hatun, Nıvart who is determined to protect her, and German engineers Helmut and Eric who are determined to photograph the facts of the genocide with great courage, Aleppo. As he is drawn into their intersecting lives, he encounters the most precious examples of destruction, reconstruction, courage, goodness and the search for justice. Laura comes to terms with the legacy of the genocide and the traces of her grandfather and grandmother's story on her American Armenian identity, both as a person and as a writer. By weaving together the narratives of different generations, Chris Bohjalian reveals that historical traumas never disappear and that our past continues to live on in our present. (From the Promotional Bulletin)