Zabelle
Charts the life of Zabelle Chahasbanian--her childhood in Ottoman Turkey, the Armenian genocide, her years in an Istanbul orphanage, the adoption by a rich Armenian family, an arranged marriage, and her eventual journey to America
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As Zabelle's family assembles for her funeral in present-day Massachusetts, it becomes clear that her children hardly knew her. But as this alternatively comic and heartbreaking novel unfolds--beginning with Zabelle's survival of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey and her subsequent emigration to America for an arranged marriage--an unforgettable character emerges.
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