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?).
Chris BohjalianThe reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
Chris BohjalianWe 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.
Chris BohjalianBut it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
Chris Bohjalian