To My Father, the Criminal

To My Father, the Criminal

Haigouhi Dourgoutian’s father, Zareh BY HAIGOUHI DOURGOUTIAN Like a deer caught in the headlights, I stood surprised at the entrance of my best friend’s kitchen when her father, a self-proclaimed grade school dropout, now a proud businessman, brazenly called my father a criminal when I said that he had lived in Siberia for most of his childhood. My father was an honorable man, well respected by friends and family members; I was mostly embarrasse…