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Katherine Covell is Professor of Psychology and Executive Director of the Children's Rights Centre at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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This touching and gripping story about a woman who survived the Armenian genocide is a must read. The author based the story on her own family’s story and additional research, and the details are stunning.

Lydia is separated from her family during the beginning of the genocide, forced to endure a brutal march that killed many of her fellow Armenians, sold into slavery, rescued and married to a man she’d never met in England. Just when she thought her life might settle down, she survives the London blitz and the increasing hostility against non-English during WW2 and afterwards.

The details of the many hardships Lydia endures are grim and traumatic, but what shines through is her courage, adaptability, and resilience. It is, in the end, a hopeful book, though I find today’s white nationalism seems far too like the stories in this book. We must be on guard.

This is a must read because, while every school child is taught about the holocaust during WW2 in Europe, little if any time is given to discussion of this equally horrific incident. It is a profound disservice to the survivors to neglect and forget this history.

It’s also a must read because, quite frankly, it’s an excellent book! Read it! Lydia’s quiet heroism creates a story that brings light, one that we could use in our current worrying times.
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Dabble58 | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Nov 11, 2023 |
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Lydia is ten years old when the Armenian genocide begins and soldiers invade her village. They force everyone to march from their homes. Separated from her parents, she marches alongside her pregnant Aunt. After her aunt dies giving birth on the side of the road, Lydia is forced on alone. The continue marching through the desert and into Syria. Finally reunited with her Mom, her happiness is short lived when she is sold into slavery. After years of suffering, she walks into the desert, determined to be free. She is found and taken to an orphanage. The orphanage arranges a marriage to a countryman man in England, Dikran. Kind and loving, they develop a good relationship. As WWII begins, Lydia and her family are bombed, forced into shelters, and must find a way to live through another war.

This was a well written and engaging story. Lydia's character was well developed and easy to love. The story was extremely heartbreaking. What horrors for any people to endure. Overall, I would highly recommend this book.
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JanaRose1 | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jul 27, 2023 |
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My husband and I actually have a friend who is Armenian, and his family suffered under the genocide that begins this book. I was interested to find out more about it from another personal view. While I learned a good deal from the book, I was somewhat disappointed that the book was less about that experience and more about Lydia's life story. While interesting, it wasn't what I expected. The book begins with Lydia and her brother in a pleasant family home, and only a few pages later, the horrors begin abruptly. Since the beginning descriptions of Lydia's family and home are detailed, I did not expect the abrupt change and feel that perhaps I didn't get the feel of the characters' reactions. Perhaps this is done intentionally, to shock the reader into experiencing just a tiny bit of what Lydia must have felt. Lydia shows great strength of character through her ordeal and her journey, and this is truly inspirational.… (més)
 
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hobbitprincess | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jun 19, 2023 |
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I requested this book to review, and read most of it under the impression that it was a memoir. I kept wondering why the names of the author's parents, pictured on the dedication page, did not appear in the story. Oops! My mistake. Once I realized that this was a fictionalized account, the questions I had about the opening story did not matter so much, and I did appreciate how it made a good bookend with the very satisfying denouement. In between is a well told story of a young Armenian refugee and her struggles over the years to deal with the trauma she experienced. Lydia had empathy for Jewish refugees during World War II who faced persecution similar to her own, but she could be rigid in her opinions of other people who were not Armenian. In other words, Lydia was portrayed so realistically with strengths and weaknesses that I could perhaps be excused for thinking she was a real person.

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Were children dinosaur crazy in 1915? Did they have play dough? Those were the questions that pulled me right out of the story in the opening pages of the book. I looked it up. Still not sure, but everything else seems very well researched. And it's fiction. And it makes Lydia's museum visit in London a wonderful scene. So, it doesn't matter.

I'm glad I read it.
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