Now an orphan at the age of eleven, Veron managed to survive in the Syrian desert with the help of distant relatives.
During the deportations, Veron's entire immediate family, including her father, mother, brothers, and sisters died either from diseases contracted along the way or due to exhaustion. When the Armenian genocide began in 1915, eight-year-old Veron along with her family were forcefully removed from their homes and deported. She was born into a wealthy Armenian family and had a comfortable and secure life. The book begins with the early life of Veron Dumehjian (1907-1981) in her native city of Azizya (today Emirdağ) in the province of Eskişehir.
The first paragraph of The Road From Home For as long as I knew the sky and the clouds, we lived in our white stucco house in the Armenian quarter of Azizya, in Turkey, but when the great dome of Heaven cracked and shattered over our lives, and we were abandoned by the sun and blown like scattered seed across the Arabian desert, none returned but me, and my Azizya, my precious home, was made to crumble and fall and forever disappear from my life.
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