I CALLED IT HOME

by David Kherdian I Called it Home, part of the Root River Cycle, "continues Kherdian's serendipitous journey into the back streets and byways, street corners and classroom, fishing holes and vacant lots, with all their attendant populations, of his memory growing up in Racine, Wisconsin. Kherdian proceeds with the stately thoroughness of an old-fashioned Armenian artisan, one who take sustenance from the work itself. By scrupulously giving us the light and dark, stone and wood, earth and water, flesh and pulse, of his own coming into consciousness as the child or Armenian immigrants, he finds a language that takes the reader, too, back to a common ground that refreshes and renew. In the end, he is tracing nothing less than the geography of a soul." Aram Saroyan Blue Crane Books (1997)