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The Road From Home
The Road From Home
The Road From Home
Audiobook5 hours

The Road From Home

Written by David Kherdian

Narrated by Adriana Sevan

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 28, 2009
ISBN9780061762352
Author

David Kherdian

David Kherdian is the author of over 30 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His book The Road From Home was nominated for the National Book Award, and he has also won the Newbery Honor Book Award, The Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, The Jane Addams Peace Award, and the Friends of American Writers Award. He lives in California.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    On the homefront, I'm schooling my youngest child in 11th grade. We decided that we'd read some books together--who says you can't curl up on the couch and read in high school? Lillian and I finished The Road From Home, a Newbery Award Winner about the Armenian Holocaust in Turkey. We're studying the 20th Century, and she'd never heard about the Armenian Holocaust.This is the memoir of Veron, a young girl growing up in Turkey before World War I with her family. As the war approached, the Turks rounded up the Armenians and marched them into the desert. This is mostly from the Armenian viewpoint, but it does bring out the fact that the Armenians were the political enemies of the Turks and Germans during the war. If your child has learned about the Trail of Tears, then they should be able to handle this book. It is geared to a middle school/high school audience. There is tragedy, but she survives.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Interesting to hear a female perspective on the Armenian genocide and diaspora. Certainly not a gorey as many other books I have read on this subject.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The story of the author's mother as a young girl and her journey through Turkey as an Armenian refugee, and finally to America.The pacing is a bit uneven, but the story is an important one, I think, and so worth the read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I have an hour to go and I’m weighing if I want to finish this and begin listening to Cannery Row or not. I started it hoping to understand the massacre of 1915 since I wasn’t familiar. I don’t. But, what can you say about someone else’s story? It is what it is. Maybe it was the narrator’s sunny disposition and glass-half-full outlook that made even that horrible things seem “not so bad” though they were. Her inner turmoil must have been edited somewhat in the retelling of the story to the author, just like my grandmother did with me.