{"id":1902,"date":"2008-07-25T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:31","slug":"hide-for-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1902","title":{"rendered":"Hide for Your Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SIlf1-Gk1rI\/AAAAAAAAApY\/SluQd0VuvYg\/s1600-h\/DaughterofWar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/DaughterofWar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226814223348455090\" \/><\/a>I find almost every story about the Armenian genocide almost impossibly painful to read. Still, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch&#8217;s fictional account Daughter of War brings humanity, love, and hope into a story that is, at the same time, dark, painful, and horrific.<\/p>\n<p>When the story begins, Marta has been living in the home of a Muslim, given refuge but also forced into the status of inferior wife. Upon finding out Marta is pregnant, the elder wife bundles Marta into a cart, bound who knows where. Meanwhile, Marta&#8217;s love from before the &#8220;deportations,&#8221; Kevork, is working as a cobbler, disguised as an Arab. Neither has any idea whether the other is even still alive. <\/p>\n<p>But they maintain hope, somehow&#8211;and both end up fighting the injustice of their society as best they can. Marta returns to the orphanage where she lived as a child, hoping to find refuge during her pregnancy, and ends up helping other orphaned children; Kevork begins a difficult odyssey as a messenger for those resisting the government. This is a story filled with both excruciating historical detail and no-holds-barred emotion&#8211;at times disturbing, but it&#8217;s a story that needs to be told, with an ultimately uplifting ending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=9781554550449\" target=_blank>Buy this book from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find almost every story about the Armenian genocide almost impossibly painful to read. Still, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch&#8217;s fictional account Daughter of War brings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,40,36,21,5],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-historical-fiction","tag-multicultural-fiction","tag-realistic-fiction","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}