Local Author Delves Into Genocide, Identity in Debut Novel
As she walked the rolling hills of Kharpert, located in what is now eastern Turkey, Sarah Ignatius thought of her grandfather, who was born there over a hundred years before. “It was just incredible to walk on the hillsides where he had lived, and feel you’re breathing the same air,” she said. At the time of her grandfather, Kharpert was part of Armenia. He fled the country prior to the Armenian Genocide, which took place between the spring of 1915…
