Zabelle New or Used:New love and war collide as

love and war collide as the irrepressible Jacky Faber sets off on a daring adventure she vowed she€™d never take

family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world

…By reading these affirmations—one a day

Over the course of ten crucial years

When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life

Zabelle New or Used:New love and war collide asAs Zabelle's family assembles for her funeral in present day Massachusetts, it becomes clear that her children hardly knew her. But as this alternatively comic and heartbreaking novel unfolds beginning with Zabelle's survival of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey and her subsequent emigration to America for an arranged marriage an unforgettable character emerges.