The Pomegranate Tree

Emerging Writer Series

Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “The Pomegranate Tree” by Vartan Koumrouyan. Vartan was born in Lebanon, has lived in Manila and on the island of Palawan in the Phillippines, and has resided in Paris since his teens. The BBC once produced a short story of his, “Down on the Levee Vosky,…