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The Prince of Wentworth Street An American Boyhood in the Shadow of a Genocide

John Christie

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Description:"In this intensely personal memoir, Christie arrives at a moment of inexplicable dread late in life that forces him to peel back layers of identity -- designated good boy, journalist and businessman,” writes prize-winning author Lou Ureneck. “His mission is to find his true self, and the journey leads back to the poor mill town where he grew up and to his grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide who made a life in America. This is a book that will appeal to all readers interested in families and the ways which the children of immigrant families make themselves into Americans." Author John Christie was feeling unmoored after the end of a distinguished career in journalism. To regain his place in the world, he turned his investigative reporting skills on himself, beginning by going 100 years into the past and a murder in an ancient land. There, he discovered the story of Gulenia Hovsepian, the woman who he would come to know simply as “Nana.” In 1909, the nine-year-old girl was sent by her parents to their pasture to herd their cows. That’s when a boy from their village in Turkey ran up her, yelling that armed men were coming for people like her family, Armenians. By the end of the day, her father had been murdered, and she and her mother, brothers and sisters went into hiding. Gulenia survived the Armenian Genocide and made her way to America after World War I as a mail order bride. The rest of her life was hard – the Depression, the death of her husband leaving her to raise six young children, back-breaking work in a cotton mill, seeing her boys off to war. In 1948, her oldest daughter gave birth to John Christie. Nana was determined that her “Johnny,” the first grandchild in the family, would suffer neither deprivation nor tragedy. So, in their tenement on a dead-end street in Dover, N. H., he was treated like a precious commodity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Prince of Wentworth Street An American Boyhood in the Shadow of a Genocide. To get started finding The Prince of Wentworth Street An American Boyhood in the Shadow of a Genocide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 177

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Plaidswede Publishing

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1732364877

Description: "In this intensely personal memoir, Christie arrives at a moment of inexplicable dread late in life that forces him to peel back layers of identity -- designated good boy, journalist and businessman,” writes prize-winning author Lou Ureneck. “His mission is to find his true self, and the journey leads back to the poor mill town where he grew up and to his grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide who made a life in America. This is a book that will appeal to all readers interested in families and the ways which the children of immigrant families make themselves into Americans." Author John Christie was feeling unmoored after the end of a distinguished career in journalism. To regain his place in the world, he turned his investigative reporting skills on himself, beginning by going 100 years into the past and a murder in an ancient land. There, he discovered the story of Gulenia Hovsepian, the woman who he would come to know simply as “Nana.” In 1909, the nine-year-old girl was sent by her parents to their pasture to herd their cows. That’s when a boy from their village in Turkey ran up her, yelling that armed men were coming for people like her family, Armenians. By the end of the day, her father had been murdered, and she and her mother, brothers and sisters went into hiding. Gulenia survived the Armenian Genocide and made her way to America after World War I as a mail order bride. The rest of her life was hard – the Depression, the death of her husband leaving her to raise six young children, back-breaking work in a cotton mill, seeing her boys off to war. In 1948, her oldest daughter gave birth to John Christie. Nana was determined that her “Johnny,” the first grandchild in the family, would suffer neither deprivation nor tragedy. So, in their tenement on a dead-end street in Dover, N. H., he was treated like a precious commodity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Prince of Wentworth Street An American Boyhood in the Shadow of a Genocide. To get started finding The Prince of Wentworth Street An American Boyhood in the Shadow of a Genocide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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