There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
By Meline Toumani.
Description
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use―and abuse―our personal historiesMeline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this enmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government, and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge it. A century onward, Armenian and Turkish lobbies spend hundreds of millio...
ISBN(s)
125007410X, 9781250074102
