SILENCES: My Mother's Will to Survive

By Alice Agnes Tashjian

In Silences the human spirit triumphs. For five years Iskouhi walks from village to village in Turkish Armenia without foot, withou water, without mother, without... How she survives and becomes a fully functional human being touches and enriches. Based on mother and daughter conversations, Alice Tashjian, a story teller, recreates the drama and reveals the secrets, as only a daughter can, in compelling, passionate prose, brimming with recipes and folk life.

Blue Pansy Publishing (1995)