David Gaunt

Graybill of Azianlu

Fiction

“This is a very readable and lively fictional but fact-based story of an enterprising American teacher stationed in an obscure part of the Middle East—the Persian town of Urmia. She finds herself embroiled in all sorts of religious and cultural conflicts, culminating in genocide of Assyrian Christians during World War I. The book is well-informed and gives many insights into the daily life of Assyrians and American missionaries in the Turkish-Persian borderlands.”