Orhan’s Inheritance  by Aline Ohanesian (This title recommended by long-time Book Club member and avid reader, Dan Baris.)

When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather, Kemal Turkoglu, 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.

“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.” –Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon