Past Forward

 

an autofiction, provides a window to life in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia in the 70s. 

 

These intimately painted vignettes are about people, relationships, and the experiences that discreetly shape the psyche of a child. They are told from the point of view of a young girl who tries to make sense of a life full of contradictions in the complex world behind the Iron Curtain.

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As an adult, the author narrates childhood memories to explore the mitigated boundaries between the personal and the collective, the individual and the intergenerational, the particular and the universal.

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Together, they provide a window into the past that inadvertently shapes the present.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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