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
prayer recovery angel
The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.
alive said
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
magic certainty i-can
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....
negative defined
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
mother hurt healing
My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all.
calling answers levels
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...
writing games may
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.
memories want sometimes
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
differences people making-a-difference
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
family friday labor moved suburb york
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
aware daughters discuss father immigrants sons though
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?
austen civil henry james jane letters margaret max notice tom volumes war
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.
city fascinated grew guy likely maybe side suburbs transition york
On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.