Chris Bohjalian Quotes

Chris Bohjalian — American Novelist born on August 12, 1962,

Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist and the author of 15 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls... (wikipedia)

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

Chris Bohjalian Quotes

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