Rise the Euphrates

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Rise the Euphrates is a novel by Carol Edgarian. It concerns three generations of Armenian American women living in Memorial, Connecticut during the twentieth century. Rather than focus on a central character, the book contains the story of three generations: the grandmother Casard, her daughter Araxie, and granddaughter, Seta. The struggles faced by each woman show the enduring effects of the Armenian genocide which occurred in 1915 at the hands of the Young Turks. A major theme in both Edgarian’s work and Armenian-American literature is the ability to reconcile the genocide, lost identity, and displacement of the past to life in present day America. In Rise the Euphrates, this reconciliation is symbolized in the recovering of Casard’s lost name, Garod.