![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British army in Egypt, he and Elizabeth begin a daring correspondence, bridging their very different worlds with words of love and hope. He is young, but he has already lost his wife and infant daughter to Turkish brutality. She soon befriends a striking Armenian engineer. With only a crash course in nursing, Elizabeth has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the genocide. In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian takes us to a time and place-Syria, 1915-that left haunting legacies for his Armenian heritage, making this his most personal novel to date.Ī sweeping historical love story, The Sandcastle Girls introduces us to Elizabeth Endicott, an adventure-seeking graduate of Mount Holyoke College who travels to Syria just as the Great War has begun to spread across Europe. ![]()
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