Tadem, My Father's Village: Extinguished during the 1915 Armenian Genocide

Winner of the Gold Medal for Best New Voice from IBPA's Ben Franklin (2016) Drawing on accounts from over a dozen witnesses, most never before published, the author recounts the life and death of one village. He follows his father, Boghos Kezerian Kaloosdian, and other townspeople from the first intimations of violence through deportations, separations, massacres, and escapes, to the establishment of diasporal communities. With striking immediacy, the author presents Tadem as a microcosm of...