Combining the historical urgency of
The Burning Tigris
, the cultural sweep of
Middlesex
, and the psychological complexity of
Bending Toward the Sun,
Garin K. Hovannisian's
Family of Shadows
is a searing history of Armenia, realized through the lives of three generations of a single family. In
, Hovannisian traces the arc of his family's changing relationship to its motherland, from his great-grandfather's flight to America after surviving the Armenian Genocide to his father Raffi Hovannisian's repatriation and subsequent climb to political prominence as the head of the Heritage Party. Hovannisian's articles on Armenian issues, including the Genocide, the Armenian Diaspora, and the challenges of post-Soviet statehood, have appeared in the
Los Angeles Times
,
Christian Science Monitor
Chicago Tribune
Armenian Observer
Ararat
, and numerous other publications.