Just wanted to let you know that the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society is sponsoring an event for Nobody’s Child on Sunday April 30th at 2pm.
It will be at the Armenian Community Centre
49 Hallcrown Place,
North York ON
Refreshments will be served before the presentation.
I will be there signing books and giving a short talk. Students from the ARS Day School will be reading selected passages.
It’s open to the public.
Marina mentioned this. We may join you.
If you see two crazed fans waving madly from the crowd, that’s us. 🙂
Hélène B
It would be wonderful to see you, Hélène and Marina!!
Hi Marsha,
Fun, fun! Wish I could be there!
–Rose
Hi Rose,
They’re bringing Marash desserts (Marash is the city where the orphanage was).
Hi Marsha!
Of course I remember Marash. Your story is just stuck in my brain! What sort of desserts?
Have a great time!
–Rose
There are some usual cookies and candies from the Marash region. One of my favourites is called “grape sausage” — it’s a gelatin or licorice consistency, and it has nuts in it.
Sounds yummy!
–Rose
Marsha:
Wish I could come – but have a great reading!
Julie
Thanks, Julie!
Hi Pazhmina,
Thank you for your message! I would love it if you added me to your friends list.
I have two new books coming out this spring and two coming out in 2007. Here’s one of this year’s:
http://tinyurl.com/fjnur
and here’s the other:
http://tinyurl.com/gsm2e
The anthology is YA/adult, not the 9 to 12 that’s listed.
Which book of mine have you read?
Marsha
http://www.calla.com
I’m delighted that you found The Hunger to be a powerful novel. That was my first novel and thus more difficult to write. I’m currently more than half way finished Daughter of War, which continues the story from Nobody’s Child and The Hunger.
Which part of The Hunger did you prefer? I have been writing historicals now for several novels but I’m yearning to do another contemporary.
The anthology is a powerful collection of stories. I am the editor for that one and it features quite a few newly-published writers. The stories span from 1905 to 2005 and it has a homesteading story, an internment story, one set during the Ukrainian Famine, one written by an Auschwitz survivor, and another set in a post WWII displaced persons’ camp etc.
That was exactly my thought while writing The Hunger. Did you know that eating disorders don’t develop in times of famine? I was gobsmacked when I found that out, and it just seemed to be the perfect way of making the Armenian genocide relevant to people now.