The Hundred-Year Walk by Dawn Anahid Mackeen
The inspiring story of a young Armenian s harrowing escape from genocide and of his granddaughter s quest to retrace his stepsGrowing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepan s story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape.
Longing for a fuller picture of Stepan s life and the lost home her family fled Dawn travels to Turkey and Syria, across a landscape still rife with tension. Using his newly discovered journals as a guide, she reconstructs her grandfather s odyssey to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire. There, he found himself alone and on a grueling death march along the banks of the Euphrates River.
Part reportage, part memoir, The Hundred Year Walk alternates between Stepan s tale of resilience and Dawn s remarkable journey, giving us a rare eyewitness account of the twentieth century s first large-scale genocide. It s filled with edge of your seat escapes and accounts of lifesaving kindnesses in the harsh desert. And it s in the desert that Dawn finds the unexpected: the secret to Stepan s survival.
Mackeen, Dawn Anahid: - DAWN ANAHID MACKEEN is an award-winning investigative journalist who spent nearly a decade on her grandfather's story. Previously she was a staff writer at Salon, Newsday, and Smart Money. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Southern California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780544811942 |
| ISBN 10 | 0544811941 |
| Title | The Hundred-Year Walk |
| Author | Dawn Anahid Mackeen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2017-01-24 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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