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Aug 18, 2015lostintheshelves rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A surprisingly fast-paced and absorbing story that weaves together the meeting of a Turkish and Armenian family in the present with their linked history during the Armenian genocide. You'd expect a book on this topic to be depressing, but Ohanesian both makes you feel the full horror of what happened and grounds the history in optimism and redemption, imagining a way for Turks and Armenians to move forward together. Treating all her characters with compassion, she considers the perils of both refusing to recognize the past and refusing to forget it. Suspenseful short chapters make it a very fast read, but I learned a lot.