"Trenchant...crisp and suspenseful...Strong renderings of Armenia's national nightmare..." Kirkus Reviews

A historical novel set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire amid the throes of the Armenian Genocide, told through the experiences of a young boy.

Aran Pirian, the twelve year old son of an academician father and musician mother living in 1915 Constantinople, had all of life's essentials and more. Aran and his younger sister, Anahid, though, were unaware of what was about to come as World War I and a Turkish nationalist movement intent on ethnic cleansing intervened...