The Legacy Of Lost Things A Novel Aida Zilelian by Aida Zilelian 9780990573234, 0990573230 instant download after payment.

   Many novels about contemporary Armenian life are mired in sentimentality or outdated tropes. Not so the work of Zilelian, whose style is sparse & declarative, bold & unsparing. She made a splash with her 2015 novel, which takes place in a Queens Armenian community like the 1 that Zilelian grew up in. Local private school girl & anti-heroine Araxi is a bored teenager rebelling against the social & ethnic restrictions that prevented her mother, born in the Armenian ghetto of Beirut, from marrying her true love. Both now live in America with their own families & their lives only occasionally overlap. One day Araxi can no longer bear the silences & unspoken recriminations that surround & threaten to engulf her. She runs away with her best friend & the tight bonds that once tenuously held her family together begin to unravel. Araxi is unsure herself if she will ever return... 
   Aida Zilelian is a 1st generation American-Armenian educator, writer & storyteller from Queens, NY. Her fiction explores the depths of love & family relationships, culture & the connections between characters that transcend time & circumstance. Her 1st novel (unpublished) The Hollowing Moon, was 1 of the top 3 finalists of the Anderbo Novel Contest. The sequel The Legacy of Lost Things was published in 2015 (Bleeding Heart Publications) & was the recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. Aida has been featured on NPR, The Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Poets & Writers & various reading series throughout Queens & Manhattan. Her short story collection These Hills Were Meant for You was shortlisted for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Award. Her work has most recently appeared in Ekphrasis Review & Lighthouse Weekly, where her story “The Piano” was featured & awarded 1st place. Her novel All the Ways We Lied is slated for release in Jan. 2024 (Keylight Books)