![]() ![]() 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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