Event Title
Meet Daniel Melnick author of The Ash Tree
Location
Michael Schwartz Library, RT 502
Start Date
11-4-2018 3:00 PM
End Date
11-4-2018 4:30 PM
Description
Meet Daniel Melnick author of The Ash Tree. It tells a timeless story of the romance and marriage between an American Armenian girl and an immigrant who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. In the aftermath of the Genocide from the 20s through the early 70s, the couple and their three children become vivid, quintessentially American characters, only for tragedy to find them again, echoing the staggering losses of 1915. The cover painting with its frayed, whitewashed frame is by the author’s wife, Jeanette Arax Melnick, and the novel is based partly on the lives of her family. Combining history and fictionalized memoir, The Ash Tree is an important, beautifully written novel of survival, new life, and heartbreak. Available from independent bookstores, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.com. Further information at www.danielmelnick.com. Price: $25. ISBN: 9780981854762.
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Event Location
Meet Daniel Melnick author of The Ash Tree
Michael Schwartz Library, RT 502
Meet Daniel Melnick author of The Ash Tree. It tells a timeless story of the romance and marriage between an American Armenian girl and an immigrant who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. In the aftermath of the Genocide from the 20s through the early 70s, the couple and their three children become vivid, quintessentially American characters, only for tragedy to find them again, echoing the staggering losses of 1915. The cover painting with its frayed, whitewashed frame is by the author’s wife, Jeanette Arax Melnick, and the novel is based partly on the lives of her family. Combining history and fictionalized memoir, The Ash Tree is an important, beautifully written novel of survival, new life, and heartbreak. Available from independent bookstores, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.com. Further information at www.danielmelnick.com. Price: $25. ISBN: 9780981854762.
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Brief biographical information about Daniel Melnick: In addition to The Ash Tree (published by West of West Books), Daniel Melnick is the author previously of Hungry Generations, a novel about the community of émigré musicians who fled Europe in the late 1930s and raised their families in Los Angeles (iUniverse). He has also published a score of articles and stories, a monograph about music and the modern novel, Fullness of Dissonance (Fairleigh Dickenson), and a novella about Israel during the first Iraq war, with stories, Terror and Contrition (Create Space). He was born in Los Angeles, and he attended the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at UC Berkeley, California State University at Fresno, Cleveland State University where he is an Emeritus Professor of English, and – in retirement as a part-time lecturer – Case Western Reserve University. He and his wife live in Cleveland and have three children and four grandchildren.