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When Orhan's brilliant and eccentric grandfather, Kemal Trkoglu, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman in a retirement home in Los Angeles. Intent on righting this injustice, Orhan unearths a story that, if told, has the power to undo the legacy upon which Orhan's family is built, a story that could unravel his own future. "Breathtaking and expansive . . . Proof that the past can sometimes rewrite the future." - Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train "Stunning . . . At turns both subtle and transcendent." - Los Angeles Review of Books "To take the tumultuous history of Turks and Armenians in the early part of this century, and to tell the stories of families and lovers from the small everyday moments of life to the terrible journeys of death, to make a novel so engrossing and keep us awake - that is an accomplishment, and Aline Ohanesian's first novel is such a wonderful accomplishment.
About the Author
Aline Ohanesian is the author of Orhan's Inheritance, a finalist for the Pen Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. The debut novel, published by Algonquin Books, has been translated into Italian, Hebrew and other languages. Her essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Publisher's Weekly and elsewhere. She lives and writes in San Juan Capistrano, California.
