A review by pmhandley
My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir by Fethiye Çetin, Maureen Freely

4.0

I didn't think so much grief could be packed into such a short book. This book gutted me. Every additional detail about Heranus and her life and family broke my heart a little further. I never learned much about the Armenian genocide and the details Fethiye's grandmother carried with her and buried for years, I don't know how she managed to keep going. Fethiye's own discovery that everything she thought she knew about her family is wrong was just as jarring to read. This is not a book to pick up as a light read, to say the least, but it is a very important one and I hope more people read it.