10/03 @ 7 pm, Big Blue Marble Bookstore / Aida Zilelian, author of "The Legacy of Lost Things"

Aida Zilelian’s breathtaking debut novel, The Legacy of Lost Things, follows three generations of a family of Armenian immigrants living in the United States, as they struggle with one another and against the Old World expectations of their community.
“a breathtaking and heartbreaking first novel . . . a tragic and powerful tale of love and hate, tragedy and rebirth” -Huffington Post

Aida Zilelian is a New York writer and English teacher. She has been published in several anthologies and over twenty-five literary journals including Per Contra, Red Fez, Wilderness House Literary Review, Theurgy, and others. She has read her work at various reading series in Queens and Manhattan including Sunday Salon, Phoenix Reading Series, Gartal, Rez Reading Series, Oh, Bernice!, and First Tuesdays. She is the curator of Boundless Tales, a reading series in Queens, NY. In 2011 her first novel The Hollowing Moon was one of the four semi-finalists of the Anderbo Novel Contest. The Legacy of Lost Things is her first published novel and was the recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. She is currently working on her third novel.