As many as 1.5 million Armenians died in the early 20th century in the Armenian genocide, but this is a largely unknown part of modern history. Chris Bohjalian’s poignant tale of love and survival puts human faces on some of those Armenian victims and on the humanitarian workers who tried to help them. The story is told from two points of view and during two different periods of time—at the time of the actual atrocities and in the present. Laura Petrosian, a novelist of Armenian descent has always viewed her grandparents as ordinary, if a bit eccentric. She is aware that her grandmother, an American, married her grandfather, an Armenian, after serving as an aid worker in
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Did you ever have one of those days where no matter how much good you thought you were doing, your life swirled deeper and deeper into the toilet? For Officer Nestor Camacho that day turns into weeks as he goes from being a hero to an outcast in performing one act of bravery after another. Prior to saving a Cuban refugee by gripping him between his short but powerful legs as he carries the man down the 70 foot mast of a swaying boat in Biscayne Bay, Nestor’s claim to fame was his meticulously groomed and toned physique. The young policeman who’d been the respected son of his Cuban community in Hialeah, instantly becomes a pariah when his incredible feat results in the refugee’s arrest and imminent deportation. Nestor’s family disowns him and the police department, embarrassed by the uprising in the Cuban community censures him, leaving him homeless, friendless and in danger of
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