A Call From Home is the story of a woman doctor who leaves her comfortable Boston suburb to bring disaster relief to the people of Armenia and Karabagh after the devastating earthquake of December 7,1988. The worldwide relief effort became one of the largest ever seen. It was a news story itself. But the earthquake wasn’t all. By 1991 major events were rapidly tumbling one upon the other --the Soviet Union began to disintegrate; Armenia was blockaded by its neighbors; and a war with Azerbaijan began over the independence of Nagorno-Karabagh.

With each of her many trips to the region over 10 years, Dr. Najarian was drawn deeper and deeper into the lives of the people she met -- the doctors who worked under horrendous conditions; the generous families who invited her to share what little they had; and the patients she treated like the woman reluctant to show her raw, swollen hands. Her journals provide the record of those dark days and describe the courage, dignity, and humor, with which Armenians lived and survived. Their poignant stores provide an intimate look at these extraordinary people of the Caucasus.

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