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. This spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012-a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date. In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, he brings us on a very different kind of journey.
As The Washington Post Book World has noted, Bohjalian writes “the sorts of books people stay awake all night to finish.”
And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and Germany with nail-biting authenticity. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island-and a young social worker’s descent into madness. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys.
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