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The Road from Home
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl | David Kherdian
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David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.
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Currey
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#readaroundtheworld #armenia The son of the Main Character, is the author of this book taking us from his mother‘s deportation and exile from her Armenian home in Azizya through multiple refugee camps to her eventual betrothal in Greece. Along the way she loses her parents and siblings to massacres and despair. Written in a straight forward style with little emotional overtone it is nevertheless an important book about the Armenia diaspora.

Currey The picture is of the fire set by Turkish troops to the Armenian quarter of Smyrna, a Greek city on the Mediterranean. The city is obviously no longer ‘Greek‘ and is part of Izmir 2y
rockpools I‘m definitely going to have to come back and learn more about Armenian history. Devastating. 2y
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scaifea
Mehso-so

The story of the author's mother as a young girl and her journey through Turkey as an Armenian refugee, and finally to America.
The pacing is a bit uneven, but the story is an important one, I think, and so worth the read.

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Audrey
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Pickpick

I read this book in 1979. One of the librarians pulled this new book off the shelf and recommended that I read it. I did and learned so much about the Armenian genocide and a few years later, and won an award for an 8th grade history project. Never forget.

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