ARMAVENI: A YA Graphic Novel


ARMAVENI

A YA Graphic Novel
Levine Querido
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

A bold, autobiographical graphic novel chronicling one girl’s quest to uncover her family’s history during the Armenian genocide.

Nadine loves stories and her mother loves to tell them — all but one. Nadine would give anything to learn about her family’s history in Armenia and Turkey –where they came from and how they came to America — but it is just too painful for her parents. All Nadine knows is that they were caught up in the Armenian genocide.

Until one day the dam bursts. And through that flood of stories and memories, and a trip back to their people’s homelands, Nadine discovers a key to unlocking her own heritage and the courage to speak up when injustice rears its head again. 

Told in interwoven historical, contemporary, and fantastical sequences, Armaveni is a gripping graphic novel debut and a much-needed historical document.

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BOOK SIGNING
March 10, 2026
6:00pm Green Apple Books on Clement
506 Clement St. San Francisco, CA 94118
* Book signing only
To RSVP please use this link: https://greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-03-10/clement-st-nadine-takvorian-author-signing

BOOK LAUNCH – ARMAVENI
March 14, 2026
6:30pm Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore
2904 College Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705
* In conversation with local, award-winning author, Eugene Yelchin.
To RSVP please use this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980506448100?aff=oddtdtcreator

March 15, 2026
Cartoon Art Museum
781 Beach St. Fl 1, San Francisco, CA 94109
*Panel and Emerging Artist Exhibition – More info to come

March 21, 2026
6:00pm Linden Tree Books
265 State St. Los Altos, CA 94022
* In conversation with local author, Maggie Tokuda-Hall

6 June: Exploring the Sacred Through Armenian Music, with Khatchadour Khatchadourian

https://saintagnessf.org/events/exploring-the-sacred-through-armenian-music-with-khatchadour-khatchadourian

Bay Area-based Armenian vocalist and musician, Khatchadour Khatchadourian, shares an intimate solo concert exploring sacred music of Armenia. Khatchadour will guide us through a musical journey reflecting upon both church and sacred hymns of Armenia, along with love songs, nature-infused and folk music-centered melodies. The concert explores the sacred, as found in formal worship, in nature, and in love. 

Bio: 

Khatchadour is a Lebanese-Armenian vocalist and duduk wooodwind player based out of San Francisco Bay Area. His vocal repertoire is grounded in both the Armenian and Arab vocal traditions. Growing up within the Armenian diaspora on the Lebanese coast, and later having spent many years in Aleppo, Syria, Khatchadour’s voice pays homage to these landscapes along with that of the South Caucasus, and Anatolia, where he traces his family ancestry. 

Khatchadour’s passion for the duduk, an Armenian double reed woodwind, began in 2007, and has since, taken him on musical journeys across Armenia and Southern France. He studies under master duduk player, Levon Minassian. Additionally, for the past few years, Khatchadour has been immersed in the study of Persian vocal Radif, and sings in Farsi, under the instruction of master vocalist, Mahsa Vahdat. 

Khatchadour’s musical journey was recently featured across KQED’s The California Report Magazine, under the title of “Meet The Duduk Whisperer: A Bay Area Armenian Folk Musician Revives Centuries of Soul” by journalist Elize Manoukian. Khatchadour is currently completing his 6th album, Shounch: Breath, which is partially funded and made possible through the Musical Grant Program, administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation. www.intermusicsf.org

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