Annihilation

A Story of the Armenian Genocide

By: Michael Bosland

Narrated by: Susan McGurl

Her government wants her dead. The Republic of Turkey doesn’t want you to hear about her.

Rosmerta Bedrosian is a 13-year-old girl living with her Armenian family in Eastern Anatolia in 1915. Frustrated by their declining fortunes, the Ottoman state needs a scapegoat. They find one in their Christian subjects and drive the Armenian population on death marches into the Syrian desert. Rosmerta witnesses acts of increasingly senseless violence and cruelty. How can she survive when everyone around her is dying?

Annihilation: A Story of the Armenian Genocide is both an engrossing coming-of-age story and a thrilling historical memoir. Michael Bosland’s first novel is a gripping tale of brutality with touching moments of human kindness and decency in the face of overwhelming horror.

Pick up your copy now and see what the Turkish government wishes the world would forget.

©2019 Michael Bosland (P)2020 Michael Bosland

Great story, but not crazy for the narrator

I loved this book, but for reasons that I do not understand, Susan McGurl's voice grated in my (covid) ears. It is ok, I am not going to like every reader. I bought the kindle version and read along with her and found that more to my liking. I have not done this with a book ever, but maybe I will do it more often.

The story is about Rosemerta and her family, and how she survives death marches meant to annihilate her. Not everyone survives. The story is fast paced and I did not want to set it aside. I have read many books on the Armenian genocide and once again, I was praying for these people to have a different and better outcome. This book is fiction, but the people are real.

My favorite part of the book is in the end in the Author's Notes where Bosland reminds us of other atrocities in the last century and what is going on now. This isn't one bad event that happened, the first and only of its kind... this is something awful that has never ended in history. I appreciated that.