Jencey's Writer's Corner

Today we have Dawn MacKeen sharing her new novel The Hundred-Year Walk .  She takes us on a journey stepping into her grandfather's shoes.  Come along for the ride.   Dawn Anahid MacKeen’s  grandfather, Stepan Miskjian, kept meticulous journals of his entire story, a “road map to his life,” which MacKeen felt compelled to follow by traveling to Turkey and Syria to walk in his steps—a dangerous venture since it was illegal there to even mention this part of history. But she had to “taste his thirst, touch the land where he walked. See the green hills surrounding his Adabazar, where his dreams of becoming the town’s first courier had taken root, before they withered and died in the desert.” And so the book jumps from Stepan’s journey to hers, from history to present, in a page-turning narrative aflame with raw emotion. There are several other publications by Armenian authors in this centenary year, but none personalize these events the way MacKeen does in THE HU...