“Nancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived in the apartment upstairs. The community was rich in Armenian culture — ”there were four Armenian churches, three Armenian bakeries, and two Armenian cultural centers” there at the time, she remembers.
But it still wasn’t until she was in college that she heard her own grandmother’s story. “The genocide was not explicitly discussed,” Kricorian says. An assignment in a course on mothers and daughters in literature prompted her to interview her grandmother about her own experiences during the genocide, which started on April 24, 1915.” – Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe