Memoirs of a Young Alien: The Exile

Memoirs of a Young Alien tells the story of three generations of emigrants searching for an identity, a country, a better life. Ohannes, the Armenian grandfather, fled Turkey in 1916 to escape the genocide and resumed his life in Alexandria, Egypt. There he met Adele, a Lebanese girl who had fled her country, escaping the great famine triggered by the blockade of the Ottoman Empire.

Ohannes and Adele’s children would scatter all over the world, from Australia to Canada. Alice, the eldest da...