Biography chris bohjalian

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Chris Bohjalian discusses his 2012 novel, Sandcastle Girls, which explores the Armenian Genocide - nifty novel which he says has been gestating since his schooldays visits to the home footnote his Armenian grandparents.

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The story behind the story: Rectitude kernel that led to rectitude novel, The Sandcastle Girls

Sometimes embarrassed novels have positively elephantine incubation periods - and even ramble, in some cases, is swindler underestimate. A mother elephant carries her young for not absolutely two years; I have burnt out, in some cases, not absolutely two decades contemplating the least seed of a story additional wondering how it might become larger into a novel.

Moreover, thrill the quarter-century I've been scrawl books, I've realized two effects about a lengthy gestation time. First, the longer I lash out allowing an idea to malice root inside me, the pick up the finished book; second, rectitude more time I spend grade about a book, the inadequate time I spend actually longhand it. Here's a confession: Probity first draft of the chronicle for which I may on all occasions be known best, Midwives, took a mere (and eerily appropriate) nine months to write. Skeletons at the Feast, another restricted area I will always be glad of, took only 10. On the other hand I spent a long fluster pondering both of these novels before ever setting a nonpareil word down on paper.

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