https://www.johnchristieauthor.com/johnchristiewriter daily 1.0 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e684fd8d50b5e2b2a0aca4d/1583895060813-TW5THYT8G42I6AJIG3BC/Prince+of+Wentworth+Street+cvr+PRF1.jpeg Home - In this intensely personal memoir, Christie arrives at a moment of inexplicable dread late in life that forces him to peel back layers of identity -- designated good boy, journalist and businessman. His mission is to find his true self, and the journey leads back to the poor mill town where he grew up and to his grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide who made a life in America. This is a book that will appeal to all readers interested in families and the ways which the children of immigrant families make themselves into Americans. — Lou Ureneck, award-winning author of “Smyrna, September 1922’’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e684fd8d50b5e2b2a0aca4d/1585088424334-DDZ16LULN08W93C4PLJQ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-24+at+6.20.07+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e684fd8d50b5e2b2a0aca4d/1586714696218-BGQE56ICQKD7K4EPPA6D/Armenian_woman_kneeling_beside_dead_child_in_field.png Home Armenian immigrants to America tried to keep memories of their tragic past to themselves and raise their children and grandchildren safe and secure in their new homeland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e684fd8d50b5e2b2a0aca4d/1585269743337-TGVZ2QBZRZIT7REKHZ0B/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-03-26%2Bat%2B8.40.49%2BPM.jpg Home Nana, on the steps of her Wentworth Street home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e684fd8d50b5e2b2a0aca4d/1586801636715-IJBN9N16WUB8YV9I3355/Suedia.jpg Home - I had come to know that of all the possible motivations of human behavior, the one that drives me most was loyalty. When I was disloyal — or thought others would think I was being disloyal to them — guilt consumed me. If I had not been as loyal as I believed I should be, as true to those to whom I owe so much, then that dark forest looked awfully inviting. Those feelings had been transformed into a yearning to express my gratitude to the people I owe my loyalty to, to express it in these words. And in one final act. That act was to go back to the beginning, go back to where it all began for Gulenia Hovsepian, my Nana. I wanted to go to Suedia. I wanted to go to Nana’s home, the home she was forced out of 100 years ago because of her religion, because she was Armenian, and proclaim that I had come in her name. https://www.johnchristieauthor.com/about daily 0.75 2021-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e684fd8d50b5e2b2a0aca4d/1584213895393-GP6WV7OULBE0SOBHGA9K/IMG_6417.JPG About John Christie began his writing life in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1970, and after making his career elsewhere, he returned there in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e684fd8d50b5e2b2a0aca4d/1585089343050-FGXK3EIXAG33IHQ7Y8W0/Wentworth+Street.jpeg About Christie in 2017 in front of his family’s tenement on Wentworth Street in Dover, New Hampshire. Photo: Naomi Schalit https://www.johnchristieauthor.com/news-and-reviews daily 0.75 2020-07-13