Carol Edgarian Books in Order

After surviving the Armenian genocide, Casard builds a new life in America, but inherited trauma strains her daughter’s family. Her granddaughter Seta must navigate cultural divisions and unfinished histories to reshape the next generation’s legacy.

Carol Edgarian and Tom Jenks gather observations from writers’ private notebooks, diaries and journals across centuries. Arranged through the stages of life, the selections consider ambition, love, money, mortality and the satisfactions and frustrations of writing.

In San Francisco, Lena Rusch and Charlie Pepper believe they can balance marriage, children and ambitious careers. Unexpected pressures expose their limits, testing the promises of their shared life and the love they hope to preserve.

When the 1906 earthquake devastates San Francisco, fifteen-year-old Vera Johnson and her sister are left to survive amid the ruins. Unlikely alliances help Vera imagine a different life beyond the divisions that shaped her childhood.