A Gift In The Sunlight

Professor Kay Mouradian, a specialist in health and physical education, retired from the Los Angeles Community Colleges to start a new career as a writer. Her publications include Reflective Meditation, A Mind Calming Technique (Theosophical Pub. House 1982), A Guide for Those Teaching Yoga in the Community Colleges and several magazine articles.

She wrote her first novel, A Gift in the Sunlight: An Armenian Story after her mother’s remarkable survival of the Armenian genocide prompted her to examine her own ancestral past. After working in various libraries and archives in the United States, Dr. Mouradian visited the village in Turkey where her mother and her mother’s family, along with 20,000 other Armenians, were forced to leave their homes. Traveling across the same deportation route to the deserts of Syria where more than a million perished in the Armenian Genocide, she became acutely aware of the suffering of her mother’s generation and the lingering sense of injustice they carried.

Dr. Mouradian hopes her novel will provide a platform for reconciliation through understanding and compassion. She has personalized  her mother's story, traces the deportation route fromTurkey into Syria , and narrates some of the causes behind the genocide in a power point presentation which is available, without charge, to interested book clubs, women's groups and/or religious groups.   Requests can be made through the contact page.