Zabelle

An Armenian immigrant’s journey from the author of Dreams of Bread and Fire . “Haunting and convincing . . . There’s a fairy-tale quality to the prose” (Joyce Carol Oates , The New Yorker ).   Zabelle begins in a suburb of Boston with the quiet death of Zabelle Chahasbanian, an elderly widow and grandmother whose history remains vastly unknown to her family. But as the story shifts back in time to Zabelle’s childhood in the waning days of Ottoman Turkey, where she survives th