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The Sandcastle Women is just a significant historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalianis Armenian heritage.When Elizabeth Endicott comes in Aleppo, Syria she's a degree from Mount Holyoke, an accident program in breastfeeding,  and just the simplest understanding of the Armenian language.  The entire year is 1915 and she's offered for the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to simply help provide food and medical assistance to refugees of the Armenian genocide.  There Elizabeth becomes pleasant with Armen, a Armenian manufacture who has already lost his wife and toddler daughter.  When Armen leaves Aleppo and moves south into Egypt To become listed on the British military, he starts to create Elizabeth characters, and involves understand that he's fallen in deep love with the rich, young American lady who's therefore not the same as the spouse he lost.Fast forward to the current time, wherever we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist residing in suburban New York.  Though her grandparents' elaborate Pelham house was affectionately nicknamed "The Ottoman Annex," Laura has hardly ever really offered her Armenian history significantly believed. Nevertheless when a classic friend calls, claiming to possess witnessed a paper picture of Laura's grandma marketing an exhibit in a Boston public, Laura embarks on a trip back through her family's background that shows love, damage - and a wrenching solution that's been hidden for decades.