![]() ![]() There he will not only unearth the story that eighty-seven-year-old Seda so closely guards but discover that Seda’s past now threatens to unravel his future. Left with only Kemal’s ancient sketchbook and intent on righting this injustice, Orhan boards a plane to Los Angeles. Her existence and secrecy about her past only deepen the mystery of why Orhan’s grandfather willed his home in Turkey to an unknown woman rather than to his own son or grandson. He has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman in an Armenian retirement home in Los Angeles. But Kemal’s will raises more questions than it answers. ![]() When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather Kemal-a man who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs-is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. In her extraordinary debut, Aline Ohanesian has created two remarkable characters-a young man ignorant of his family’s and his country’s past, and an old woman haunted by the toll the past has taken on her life. ![]()
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