Elizabeth arrives in Aleppo, Syria with her father and a group of missionaries who have come to help people displaced by the Armenian genocide. Laura did not know that her grandparents were caught up in the Armenian genocide, though she thinks that it explains some of her family history, including how moody and silent her grandfather tended to be As Laura continues to learn more about the events of the past, the narrative shifts back to 1915, adopting the point of view of Laura’s grandmother Elizabeth. She is shocked to find that the Library records contain correspondence between Laura’s grandfather Armen Petrosian and her grandmother Elizabeth Endicott. Laura attends the exhibition of pictures and then returns to the Armenian Library to try to get to the bottom of the photograph. Laura is surprised to find that it is the same picture that she encountered years earlier, only now the woman in it is named as Karine Petrosian. An old friend calls Laura up to tell her that a picture of a woman with Laura’s last name is being used to promote an exhibition of photos covering the Armenian genocide. It is not until much later, when Laura is middle-aged, that the image comes back to haunt her. Though Laura finds the photo disturbing, she does not follow up on it at the time.
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