In the late 1890s, Vartanoosh Tarzian escapes with her parents from
Turkish massacres in their province of Erzeroum, Armenia, to
Beirut, the little girl and her brother riding in saddlebags on a
camel. Left in Syria in the care of a bachelor uncle while her
mother emigrates to America and her father travels to England for
medical treatment, she finally rejoins her mother in New York City
in 1903. Vartanoosh is placed in The Sheltering Arms, an Episcopal
home for "half-orphans" in what is now Harlem, where she learns to
speak, write and read English and is taught American customs and
hygiene. Returning to her parents' home, she comes to know Thomas
Alva Edison while working in their tailor shop in Orange, New
Jersey. Although her dream is to become a nurse, her parents insist
that she marry, which she does in 1913, shepherding her family of
six children through two World Wars and the Depression.
"VARTANOOSH" is the true story of a remarkable, independent woman,
told amidst a rich tapestry of Armenian customs and life in Armenia
and America.
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