Who She Left Behind

“Who She Left Behind” is a captivating historical fiction novel that spans generations and delves into the emotional lives of its characters.  Set in various time periods, from the declining days of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey in 1915 to the Armenian neighborhoods of Rhode Island and Massachusetts in the 1990s, the novel completely immerses its reader in a lesser-known era and the untold stories of the brave and resilient women who became the pillars of reconstructed communities after the Armenian Genocide.  It is a story of survival, motherhood, love, and redemption based on the recounted stories from the author’s own family history.  The narrative is framed by a mysterious discovery made almost six decades later of a pair of Armenian dolls left at a gravesite. 

If you love "The Sandcastle Girls" by Chris Bohjalian, "Orhan's Inheritance" by Aline Ohanesian, "Rise the Euphrates" by Carol Edgarian, or "All The Light There Was" by Nancy Kricorian, then this book is for you!