Katerina inherits a scented, wooden spice box after her grandmother Mariam dies. It contains letters and a diary, written in Armenian. As she pieces together her family story, Katerina learns that Mariam's childhood was shattered by the Armenian tragedy of 1915.
Mariam was exiled from her home in Turkey and separated from her beloved brother, Gabriel, her life marred by grief and the loss of her first love. Dissatisfied and restless, Katerina tries to find resolution in her own life as she completes Mariam's story, on a journey that takes her across Cyprus and then half a world away to New York.
Miracles, it seems, can happen-for those trapped by the past, and for Katerina herself.
"Eve Makis' The Spice Box Letters is a flawlessly and cinematically written historical fiction depicting the tragedy of an Armenian family ... Makis magnificently distills the stories of thousands of children orphaned during the Genocide and scattered around the world with the characters of Gabriel and Mariam."
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
"The Spice Box Letters takes readers on a compelling journey through love and war, continents and centuries, into the heart of what it means to be family."
