What is most important to me is that my narrator’s voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
I answer two or three letters a day. I’m just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
On the one hand, I’m this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that’s where our culture is most in transition and where there’s likely to be conflict. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
I’m half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father – like many sons and daughters of immigrants – wanted to be as ‘American’ as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be? Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They’re fun to read – and, yes, fun to write. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they’ll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
