Though the action occasionally feels far-off, Bohjalian’s storytelling makes this a beautiful, frightening, and unforgettable read. Nearly a century later, Laura Petrosian is living in the suburbs of New York City when a friend alerts her to a possible photo of her grandmother being used to advertise an exhibit about “the Slaughter You Know Next to Nothing About.” As she explores her past, Laura discovers that what she once considered to be her grandparents’ eccentricities-their living room was dubbed the “Ottoman Annex”-speak to a rich and tragic history. The atrocities of the genocide and the First World War continue, and Bohjalian spares no detail in his gritty descriptions. The story joggles between Aleppo, Syria in 1915 and Bronxville, New York in 2012. Though Armen departs for Egypt to fight with the British Army in WWI, their relationship blossoms into an epistolary romance. The Sandcastle Girls Author Chris Bohjalian Edition reprint Publisher Simon and Schuster, 2012 ISBN 1471110737, 9781471110733 Length 320 pages Subjects Fiction General Fiction / General. Sandcastle Girls is based on Bohjalians ancestors and Armenian heritage. A fresh-faced nurse just out of college, Elizabeth has learned only rudimentary Armenian, but soon befriends Armen Petrosian, an engineer who lost his wife and daughter during the chaos of the deportations and mass murders. In 1915, Bostonian Elizabeth Endicott arrives at a compound in Aleppo, Syria, to provide humanitarian aid to Armenian refugees. The Sandcastle Girls - The Sandcastle Girls audiobook, by Chris Bohjalian. Bohjalian’s powerful newest (after The Night Strangers) depicts the Armenian genocide and one contemporary novelist’s quest to uncover her heritage. Though The Sandcastle Girls is a novel, author Chris Bohjalian (and fictional narrator Laura Petrosian) based their.

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian