The Sandcastle Girls
by Chris Bohjalian
A Novel
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95%
Critic Reviews: 11
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Reader Ratings: 420
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Synopsis
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter's night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island-and a young social worker's descent into madness. And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland... more
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- All Critics: 11
- Positive: 11
- Negative: 0
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The Washington Post | 16 Jul 2012
Bohjalian deftly weaves the many threads of this story back and forth from past to present, from abuse to humanity, from devastation to redemption.
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USA Today | 16 Jul 2012
...Bohjalian makes a near-century-old event come to life in a way that will make readers gasp with shock that such a terrible event...is such a small part of our knowledge of world history.
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She Knows | 10 Jul 2012
Chris Bohjalian's very personal (although fictional) story...is one of his most moving and important novels to date. The Sandcastle Girls is a don't-miss read of the summer.
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The Boston Globe | 17 Jul 2012
With Armen and Elizabeth, Bohjalian has fulfilled the duty of anyone seeking to document a genocide — he ensures that we don’t look away.
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The Miami Herald | 20 Jul 2012
If his goal is to educate us, make us see what has been almost left behind in the dust of history, he succeeds. And after reading this book, we aren’t likely to forget.
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Arts Sarasota | 3 Aug 2012
“The Sandcastle Girls” is Bohjalian’s 14th novel, and he’s at the top of his game with this deeply personal story.
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Star Tribune | 16 Jul 2012
Bohjalian is a literary novelist... his books are also filled with artfully drawn characters and great, passionate storytelling. "The Sandcastle Girls" is all that, but different, more powerful.
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Seven Days | 11 Jul 2012
Sometimes, Bohjalian suggests, it’s up to the survivors’ descendants to talk about genocide, even if that means using fiction to weave fragmentary records into a tapestry of horrors.
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Entertainment Weekly | 13 Jul 2012
...Bohjalian (Midwives) — the grandson of Armenian survivors — pours passion, pride, and sadness into his tale of ethnic destruction and endurance
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Publishers Weekly | 26 May 2012
...Bohjalian’s storytelling makes this a beautiful, frightening, and unforgettable read.
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Book Reporter | 19 Jul 2012
This is a sober, elegiac and touching novel that does not flinch away from depicting the depths of human suffering, but is also able to illuminate the human capacity for survival and resurgence.
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