Kobzar and Aram news

Just found out that there will be a story on Kobzar’s Children in the October 17th edition of the Hamilton Spectator! It will focus on the story behind Natalia Buchok’s story, A Bar of Chocolate. Natalia is originally from Hamilton, and her parents still live there. The story is a true one based on her father’s experience as a teen in a displaced person’s camp when he dressed up as a girl to go on a date with an American soldier in order to get a bar of chocolate.

Natalia and I will be signing copies of Kobzar’s Children on October 22nd at the Ancaster Chapters from noon until 2.

This coming Sunday, Muriel Wood and I will have an Aram’s Choice book event at the Armenian Community Centre in Cambridge at 2:30. Please come if you’re in the area! Muriel has made some numbered signed prints of a few of her paintings. I already pleaded with her to set aside the 1/1 copy of the painting entitled “Fleeing Turkey”. This painting is of Aram’s grandmother leading a donkey out of Turkey. Strapped to the back of the donkey are two baskets, each containing a child. On the back of the donkey is a third child. That painting has special significance for me because it is based on a real life recollection of the late Aram Aivaizian, an historian, writer, and genocide survivor who helped me tremendously with my initial Armenian genocide research.

Here’s where the Aram’s Choice event will be:

Author: Marsha

I write historical fiction, mostly from the perspective of young people who are thrust in the midst of war. View all posts by Marsha