In 2012 she published her first book , '' Nowhere , a Story of Exile '' . It was based on a childhood diary she kept while her family faced the ethnic violence in Baku during the Nagorno-Karabakh War . She began translating the entries into English at the age of 14 . She also described their lives as refugees in Armenia after they escaped Baku . Her book was a first-person account of the anti-Armenianism in Azerbaijan and the Baku pogrom against Armenians
Baku pogrom
Baku pogrom
Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte