Portrait of a survivor

the long version

This is how the author described it in a San Francisco State Univ. alumni newsletter: The book approaches "Survivor" in the deepest sense, the Existential definition of not just physically living through the ordeal [of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1924], but, more importantly, with the spirit still intact. The book asks the question: "What was it about Shnorhig (my mother), and Vartouhi (my grandmother), that enabled them to endure the atrocities of that terrible genocide 80 years ago, the only two of a family of 18 to survive?" It is a very important story that I want the world to know about.