Coconut Creek resident Shahen Guiragossian, 88, has released a deeply personal memoir titled The Hawk: My Memoir, a project he says took decades to complete and was inspired by an urgency to preserve the stories that shaped his life before they were lost forever.
Guiragossian’s story spans generational trauma tied to the Armenian genocide, immigration, cultural identity, and the resilience required to rebuild one’s life in a new country.
He tells Coconut Creek Talk that the book is meant to serve as a bridge between the past and the future, written with the hope that younger generations will understand the history that shaped their families…