American - Novelist | August 12, 1962 -
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
Chris Bohjalian
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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
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There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'
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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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I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
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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.
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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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I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
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