Author discusses Family of Shadows in US bookshop Publishing house HarperCollins has announced the September 21-Independence Day release of Garin K. Hovannisian's highly anticipated debut memoir, Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream. "One of modern history's great unexamined stories," declares David Ignatius of the Washington Post. "Family of Shadows will move you with the intensity and intimacy of its detail." Combining the historical urgency of The Burning Tigris, the cultural sweep of Middlesex, and the psychological complexity of Snow, Family of Shadows is a searing history of Armenia, witnessed and realized through three generations of the Hovannisian family: Kaspar—the survivor of a national catastrophe and soldier of General Antranig; Richard—the scholar, the professor, the pioneer of Armenian studies in the United States; and Raffi—the repatriate citizen and first foreign minister of a new republic, the leader of a rising opposition party in Armenia's parliament. "An extraordinary saga," hails Dr. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and author of The Road to Home. "An inspired tribute, full of passion and appreciation."

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