Forgotten Fire

The novel discusses the Armenian genocide of 1915. It follows the life of a young boy who comes from a wealthy family, Vahan Kenderian. He describes how his life has changed from a life of servants and comfort to a life of begging for food and struggling to survive to the next day.

This topic affected me more than I expected. My stepmother's sister who I am close with is half Armenian. After I read this book, I went to her house and talked to her about it. She told me that she had family who were around during the genocide and had a few members killed because of it. It was an incredibly sad story but made this incident more real. Her account on in incident is what makes history more real and secure. History is all about word of the mouth and through time the story changes depending on the person telling it. With live accounts, it makes history more believeable and gives justice to what really happened and credit to those who survived it.