Taline and George Khabbaz - Vroman’s regulars - were surprised to find out about Marafioti’s Armenian roots because they are Armenian too. Her mother had left her husband to follow the two loves in her life: Marafioti’s father, and her passion for performing.ġ. Her dad moved the family from Russia to Hollywood in 1990, right before the fall of the Soviet Union, in hopes of escaping her great grandmother’s curse and getting the chance to perform with B.B King. American Gypsy: A Memoir is your typical coming-of-age tale, mixed with a coming-to-America tale, told by a woman who’s half-Russian/Romani and half-Greek/Armenian, whose family may or may not be burdened with a curse from her great grandmother, due to Marafioti’s out-of-wedlock birth. Tuesday night at Vroman’s in Pasadena, CA, Oksana Marafioti had her audience entranced with stories told not just from the pages of her book. In it she writes the original title of her book, “Stay where there are songs.” Oksana Marafioti signs a copy of her book for fellow writer from Las Vegas, Megan Edwards.
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