New members are always welcome. 12 Copies
of The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian will be available for
check out from the Montrose Library service desk one month prior to the bo
ok club meeting date. Please stop by the Montrose Library\, email \;montroselibrary@glen
daleca.gov\, or call 818-548-2048 to reserve
one of the 12 copies. If we run out of copies\, you'd like to pick up a c
opy at another branch\, or you prefer a different book format\, \;you
may request a copy here https://glac.biblioco
mmons.com/v2/record/S185C1513767. \;
Book Descrip tion:
\nThis tale travels between Aleppo\, Syria\, in 1915 and Bronx ville\, New York\, in 2012\, a sweeping historical love story steeped in t he author's Armenian heritage. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria\, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College\, a crash course in nursing\, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World W ar is spreading across Europe\, and she has volunteered on behalf of the B oston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. There\, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen\, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daught er. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt\, he begins to write Elizabeth letters\, and comes to realize that he has fallen in l ove with the wealthy\, young American woman who is so different from the w ife he lost. Flash forward to the present\, where we meet Laura Petrosian\ , a novelist living in suburban New York. Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought\, but when an old friend calls\, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura's grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum\, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family's history that reveals love\, loss\, and a wrenching secret that has been b uried for generations.
\nParking Information: Library parkin g is available onsite. Parking entrance is behind the Fire Station and Lib rary buildings on Sunset Ave. Visitors receive 3-hour free parking and 15 minutes drop off parking is available in front of the Library. Accessible parking and wheelchair ramp is available in the parking lot. For additiona l information about this event\, please contact Montrose Library at 818-54 8-2048 or send us an email at \;LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov.
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