The Hundred-Year Walk - by Dawn Anahid Mackeen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The inspiring story of a young Armenian man's harrowing escape from the massacre of his people and of his granddaughter's quest to retrace his steps<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize <br> A <i>New York Post </i>Must-Read <p/> "Part family heirloom, part history lesson, <i>The Hundred-Year Walk</i> is an emotionally poignant work, powerfully imagined and expertly crafted."--Aline Ohanesian, author of <i>Orhan's Inheritance</i> <p/> "This book reminds us that the way we treat strangers can ripple out in ways we will never know . . . MacKeen's excavation of the past reveals both uncomfortable and uplifting lessons about our present."--Ari Shapiro, NPR <br> </b> <br> Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard from her mother how her grandfather Stepan miraculously escaped from the Turks during the Armenian genocide of 1915, when more than one million people--half the Armenian population--were killed. In <i>The Hundred-Year Walk</i> MacKeen alternates between Stepan's courageous account, drawn from his long-lost journals, and her own story as she attempts to retrace his steps, setting out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. Dawn uses his journals to guide her to the places he was imperiled and imprisoned and the desert he crossed with only half a bottle of water. Their shared story is a testament to family, to home, and to the power of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and even time itself. <p/><b>"I am in awe of what Dawn MacKeen has done here . . . Her sentences sing. Her research shines. Her readers will be rapt--and a lot smarter by the end."--Meghan Daum, author of <i>The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion</i> <p/> "Harrowing."--<i>Us Weekly</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>DAWN MACKEEN is an award-winning investigative journalist. She was a staff writer at<i> Salon, Newsday, </i>and<i> Smart Money. </i>Her work has appeared in the <i>New York Times Magazine</i>, <i>Elle</i>, the<i> Los Angeles Times, </i>and elsewhere.
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