A Child of the Orient is a hard-hitting adventure tale about a young girl living in Greece and how she tries to reconcile her identity as a Christian, Greek woman during the Greek Revolution. Readers of all ages will enjoy following the young lady on her emotional journey navigating her Greek family and Turkish friends and acquaintances. Excerpt: It was the last day of February. Outside a storm was raging… Half of the elements were doing violence to the other half — as if they were Greeks destroying the Turks, or Turks oppressing the Greeks.