I just finished The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. This was a story of a woman writing about her grandparents' history during the Armenian genocide. It is filled with interesting facts about the war between the Armenians and Turks, something that I had never heard of before.
The story is mostly about the history of the war and how Elizabeth (an American) and Armen (an Armenian engineer) meet. It is also filled with lots of supporting characters that help to fill in lots of gaps. It covers love, loss, orphans, doctors, missionaries, and so much more.
Now that I am done with the book, I have decided that I really enjoyed the story. While reading it, I felt that it dragged on and was hard to get into. I also felt that the character parts jumped around too much and made the story a little hard to follow. But at the end, I see how every character piece was necessary to complete the whole story. I won't lie, it did take me about 80 pages to finally feel like the story was going somewhere, but I'm glad I finished it.
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