Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist and the author of 18 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
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Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
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Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
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The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
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As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
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He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
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No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
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He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
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Dead … might not be quiet at all.
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We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.
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I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
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If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.
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I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
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I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.