Goodreads asked Nancy Kricorian:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Nancy Kricorian I'm going to answer this one about the book I'm currently writing. When I was working on my third and most recent novel, ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS, about Armenians in Paris during the Nazi Occupation, I took a research trip to Paris and while there I spent a lot of time with a friend from Beirut and his circle of friends. They were Armenians, children and grandchildren of genocide survivors, who had built a thriving arts community in and around the Armenian "suburb" of Bourj Hammoud in the late 60's and early 70's. When the Civil War hit in 1975, they were all dispersed and exiled again. The idea of Armenians rebuilding their lives and communities after repeated calamities is the inspiration for the three novels I have written so far, and for the fourth of what my editor has called "The Armenian Diaspora Quartet," I'm writing about the Armenians of Bourj Hammoud.

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