Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Author . Riverhead $23.95 (212p) ISBN 978-1-57322-264-8
A middle-aged survivor of Turkey's Armenian massacres living in Beirut in the 1960s contemplates his brutal past and loses himself in a series of adulterous trysts that bring him slowly to a realization of the moral compromises he has made....
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Author . Riverhead $26.95 (335p) ISBN 978-1-59448-973-0
Marcom (Three Apples Fell from Heaven
; The Daydreaming Boy
) looks at the Guatemalan civil war through the eyes of a former American soldier complicit in the killing of civilians in this circuitous novel. As the unnamed narrator, a descendant of...
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Author . Dalkey Archive $12.95 (137p) ISBN 978-1-56478-511-4
Marcom's three previous (and provocative) novels earned her much critical acclaim, but none shocks the reader like her intensely raw latest endeavor. This short novel is the story of a nameless woman and her lover and husband, who are...
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Author Riverhead Books $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-57322-186-3
Reading this heartbreaking, beautiful, painful first novel is a bit like reliving an extraordinarily long dream. The leaps in time, the abundance of plot lines, the casual occurrence of unspeakable events and the persistent flashbacks all give the...
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom. Dalkey Archive, $14 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-56478-849-8
Marcom's latest (The Mirror in the Well), is a haunting elegy to a relationship between Maria, a Portuguese woman living in America, and her unnamed lover. Told in fragments spanning the yearlong affair and the months following their separation, the
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom. Simon & Schuster, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2072-6
In Marcom’s powerful, heartbreaking latest (after The Brick House), an undocumented college student makes the long odyssey back to California from Guatemala after being deported. Emilio Matias, 21, is a UC Berkeley student in 2012 when he gets in a...
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