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My Grandmother:An Armenian-Turkish Memoir

by Fethiye Çetin

Translated by Maureen Freely

A passionate memoir of the author’s discovery of her grandmother’s true identity

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Çetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.
Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother’s name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a Christian Armenian. Most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915. A Turkish gendarme had stolen her from her mother and adopted her. Çetin’s family history tied her directly to the terrible origins of modern Turkey and the organized denial of its Ottoman past as the shared home of many faiths and ways of life.
A deeply affecting memoir, My Grandmother is also a step towards another kind of Turkey, one that is finally at peace with its past.

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Gripping and thought-provoking ... Spare and elegant ... This moving testimony transcend politics and brings the Armenian tragedy to life with tenderness as well as sadness.

A striki
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
January 17, 2016
Brilliant... Fabulous!!!! Endearing!!! Insightful!!!!
Giggles.... Chuckles.... Tears.... Crying.... (sometimes all at the same time)!

Fredrik Beckman, author of "A Man Called Ove", does it again... manages not only to write a unique-charming-heartwarming novel....
but he has created extraordinary memorable characters, 'AGAIN'!!!

Elsa is the greatest combinations of both her parents, and grandparents, but mostly she is unique and different. Precocious, and lovable!

Grandmother is eccentric, a little nutty, a superhero.....both a sword and a shield. She is strong independent woman, who wants to say "I am sorry" to those she loves.

The fairytales add to the enjoyment and depths of issues of the heart!

The issues at heart are family bonds, Family history, reflections of the past, life lessons, love, forgiveness, acceptance, laughter.

While reading this AMAZING GEM of a story...
After my dad died -when I was 4yrs old- (her son, Max, was only 34), ...she and I became exceptionally close. She died when I
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A long time ago, I read a little book called A Man Called Oveby Fredrik Backman. It was a wonderful novel that has influenced a subsection of the lit subgenre that I’d like to call “curmudgeon novels.” Since it was his debut novel, Backman had to follow up with something that was just as good. In 2013, a year after A Man Called Ove was published, he released a book called My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. It’s a good follow up in the most Backman way possible.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is about Elsa (2013 was a great year for characters with that name) – a 7-year-old girl who is different. Her best and only friend is Granny – her brash and crazy grandmother. She tells Elsa stories in the Land of Almost-Awake and in the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Granny dies and leaves behind letters apologizing to the people she’s wronged, it’s up to Elsa to deliver those notes. They lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, vicious dogs, and totally ordinary old people, but also