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Summary: This prose crackles like fire.
Review: Three Apples Fell From Heaven is alive, mesmerizing, and searing. Micheline Aharonian Marcom's novel is a perfect literary marriage of poetry and narrative-I drank in every word even as I was horrified by the genocide's atrocities. Through sensitive Anaguil's story, loosely based on Marcom's grandmother's, I understood how humans survive, and even triumph over, extremely traumatic experiences, and are changed forever. Anaguil is a remarkable character, totally endearing, unpretentious, and profound. Reading Marcom's novel made me think, "oh yes, I know what she means!, but I had no idea it could experienced and expressed in such a gorgeous and evocative way." She elicits truth(s) from the mundane, profane, and sublime. I can't wait for her next novel.
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Summary: Three Apples...fine work
Review: Three Apples Fell From Heaven is the book I would have hoped to have written! I say this as an aspiring writer. I can't think of higher praise. Ms. Marcom has produced a compact, poetic masterpiece that manages to feed the reader historic details while communicating, to an almost uncanny degree, what it felt like to live as an Armenian under brutal Ottoman rule. Bravo to this young(!) writer. A must read.
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