rev. of Rise the Euphrates by Carol Edgarian
Rise the Euphrates A novel by Carol Edgarian. Random House, $22.00 cloth. Reviewed by Don Lee. It is an Armenian tradition to begin the telling of a story with the words Gar oo chugar: There was and there was not. The phrase is repeated throughout Carol Edgarian’s exquisitely written first novel, Rise the Euphrates, and…