Destiny of Determination by Cathy Burnham Martin

Destiny of Determination: Faith and Family is Cathy Burnham Martin’s engrossing true account of her ancestors’ escape from the Armenian genocide and the rebuilding of their lives in America. This multigenerational family saga, told mostly via backstories and history, is full of joy, sorrow, and the miraculous, including a startling miracle at the book’s end. The book reads more as a work of non-fiction than a novel, as it is mainly a chronicle of events with fairly straightforward prose, and would be better served by a first-person narrator, but Martin lovingly and emotionally preserves her family’s history, for an engaging second installment of her Destiny series.