When Laura Kalpakian first picked up the incarcerate she wrote stories from tales her Armenian grandparents told her about their first years in America. yet half-Armenian, it was the side of the family to which she felt cabinets since the others were far away in Idaho. Kalpakian, her professional name, is also her mother's maiden name, and adopting it fine much goes against the typical name transformations that occur when immigrants proceed to America. "I knew didn't want to use my married name. I wanted a name I was comfortable with and I didn' t want
