TaxideaDaisy reviewed My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan
Review of 'My Name Is Aram' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Just a joy to read, to revisit these almost-forgotten worlds of a certain carefree Americana.
Aram Garoghlanian may be a member of a big Armenian-American family in California in the 1920s or 30s, but his voice and adventures sit alongside those of better-known scamps and scallywags. Don Freeman's drawings likewise convey that sense of distant family recollections.
My favorite chapter was The Three Swimmers and the Grocer from Yale.
I sought out this book because I had several times read "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," in Reader's Digest's Great Stories for Young Readers back in the 1970s, and I had long meant to seek out and read its source -- it's the first chapter of this book.
This one aged well.
Make friends with your local librarians -- they can obtain wonders for you. I look forward to reading more Saroyan.
