Wine for the Living

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1956). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, mild shelfwear, bottom corners very slightly bumped; the jacket is mildly edgeworn, with a tiny bit of paper loss at the top of the spine, minor soiling to the rear panel]. A family saga about "the Aroians, a little Armenian family settled near Boston." (The geographical details in the book mark the setting as Revere, Massachusetts.) Simone 4: "Told from the point of view of the youngest son of the Aroian family, this is the story of their depressing home life, dominated by a cold and unforgiving mother who refuses to sanction the marriage of her children to non-Armenians and never relents after they go against her wishes." The author himself (surprise!) was of Armenian heritage, and grew up in Massachusetts; this was the last of his three published novels, all of which drew on his background. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .