Not because of the author, don't get me wrong. This book was incredibly hard to get through. The only thing I found annoying were the parts with the Granddaughter in modern day, every time it was one of her passages I got annoyed because it was interrupting the rest of the book and I really needed to know if her grandpa would be okay even though clearly yeah he was because we have this memoir but I was very emotionally involved and didn't appreciate being jarred out of it. It's the events written about in this book which convinced the Germans they could get away with mass killing as well. Especially if the Turkish still won't acknowledge what happened, that makes it more imperative to make sure everyone knows what happened with the Armenians and hold people accountable. The things that are the hardest to confront or think about are the most important to do so with and so I think that this is a really worthwhile read. Especially if the Turkish still won't acknowledge what happened, that makes it more imperative to make sure everyone knows what happened with the Armenian Reading memoirs about ethnic cleansing is always difficult, at multiple points I had to put the book down and take a breathe because I felt so overwhelmed and upset by the things being described. Reading memoirs about ethnic cleansing is always difficult, at multiple points I had to put the book down and take a breathe because I felt so overwhelmed and upset by the things being described. Their shared story is a testament to family, to home, and to the power of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and even time itself.more With his journals guiding her, she grows ever closer to the man she barely knew as a child. Inspired to retrace his steps, she sets out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. Reading this rare firsthand account, his granddaughter Dawn MacKeen finds herself first drawn into the colorful bazaars before the war and then into the horrors Stepan later endured. The Hundred-Year Walk alternates between Stepan’s saga and another journey that takes place a century later, after his family discovers his long-lost journals.

In his desperate bid for survival, Stepan dons disguises, outmaneuvers gendarmes, and, when he least expects it, encounters the miraculous kindness of strangers.

Just before killing squads slaughter his caravan during a forced desert march, Stepan manages to escape, making a perilous six-day trek to the Euphrates River carrying nothing more than two cups of water and one gold coin. Gradually realizing the unthinkable-that they are all being driven to their deaths-he fights, through starvation and thirst, not to lose hope. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government’s mass deportation of Armenians into internment camps. In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian’s world becomes undone. Gradually realizing the unthinkable-that they a An epic tale of one man’s courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter’s quest to tell his story An epic tale of one man’s courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter’s quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian’s world becomes undone.

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