Home Is Beyond The Mountains (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Her family lived near the city of Urmieh where her father, William Shedd, was an American missionary to the Assyrians, a people who have lived in northwestern Iran for thousands of years. The Assyrians speak an ancient language called Syriac or Assyrian. They have been Christians since the very early history of Christianity. When I was growing up, my mother told me many stories about her childhood in Persia — her family’s house, the food she ate, the people she knew and the games she played — until she went to live in California with relatives at the age of nine because of danger during the First World War. She also told me about her oldest sister, Susan, who went back to Persia in 1922, after the war was over, to be the director of an orphanage for Assyrian refugee children in Hamadan. The story of how Susan ran the orphanage and how she managed to help the children return to their own part of Persia was one of my favorites, and I thought that it should be made into a book.
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