So Many Homelands: Memories of a Daughter of the Armenian Diaspora - Paperback

by Berdjouhi Esmerian (Author)

SO MANY HOMELANDS contains Berdjouhi Esmerian's recollections of her childhood in an Armenian home in the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, Egypt before and after World War II, as well as other historical events that changed the course of her education and life. It also tells of her immigration to the United States in the 1960s and in how she survived and even thrived as a single woman with big dreams. These sometimes serious, sometimes sad, often humorous, and ultimately happy stories will stay in your heart and mind long after reading.

Author Biography

Berdjouhi Esmerian was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in an Armenian home. With world War II disrupting her childhood homes, the Suez Crisis and civil war in Lebanon changing the course of her education, she found peace only when she arrived in the United States at the age of thirty. She spent a fulfilling career at the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company in Rochester, New York, was very active in the small Armenian community in the city. In 2010 she co-authored a memoir anthology, According to Us, and has been published in Blue Lyra Review.