Passage to Ararat

All my life, Armenia and Armenians had been part of a dream; it and they were out there somewhere, hazy, nearly invisible. Now I was traveling into the dream. I would see what I would see. I would find what I would find. -Michael J. Arlen (author)

Arlen has combined history with his search for cultural identity, thus making the meaning of great events personal and urgent, and the significance of a personal story universal... all this makes PASSAGE TO ARARAT continually irresistible. -THE NEW YORK TIMES

What is most valuable about this quiet, burning book is that the journey its author made can take you part of the way down the trail of your own. -ROLLING STONE