LOCAL AUTHOR PRESENTS ‘A GIFT IN THE SUNLIGHT: AN ARMENIAN STORY’

Valley Sun, CA
April 6 2007

Local author Kay Mouradian will discuss her novel, "A Gift in The
Sunlight: An Armenian Story" at 7 p.m. April 11 in the Donald R. Wright
Auditorium at Pasadena Central Library.

"A Gift in the Sunlight" is inspired by a true story that took place
during the Armenian Genocide nearly 100 years ago.

A young Armenian girl, Flora, and her family are deported from their
homeland in Turkey during World War I. Flora and family are among
two million Armenians forced to walk hundreds of miles through the
barren deserts of Syria. The march becomes a death sentence for more
than a million of them.

Mouradian wrote her first novel after her mother’s recovery from
serous illness prompted her to examine her ancestral past. Mouradian
visited the village in Turkey where her mother’s family along with
20,000 other Armenians was forced to leave their homes. Traveling
across the same deportation route to the deserts of Syria where more
than a million perished in the Armenian Genocide, she became acutely
aware of the suffering of her mother’s generation.

Books will be available for sale and signing immediately following
the author’s presentation. The program is free. For more information,
including parking, call (626) 744-4066, Option 7.