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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.
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.