BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8@abrilbooks.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T210000 DTSTAMP:20261007T233301Z URL:https://abrilbooks.com/events/kaleidoscope-of-detiny-event/ SUMMARY:The Kaleidoscope of Destiny: Conversation & Book Signing DESCRIPTION:Armenian Film Society &\; Abril Books present\nThe Kaleidosc ope of Destiny\nA Conversation and Book Signing with\nSarah Ignatius & \; Arpi Sarafian\nAdmission is Free. For more information\, call (818) 24 3-4112.\n\nParking at Orange Street Parking Structure 222 N. Orange St\, G lendale\, CA 91203. First 90 minutes free\, $2.00 per hour.\n\nThe year is 1915. War rages in Europe while Armenians in the Ottoman Empire find them selves unfairly blamed for a major military defeat. Cooped up at home\, fo urteen-year-old Arakel tries to ignore rumors of arrests and beatings of A rmenians by focusing on the journey he’ll take with his two best friends \, one Turkish and the other Armenian\, on the Silk Road to China in two y ears\, certain war will be over by then.\n\nHis life is torn apart when Tu rkish officials arrest almost all of the Armenian men in his town\, includ ing his father and older brother\, and order nearly all of the remaining A rmenians into exile in the desert amidst rumors of massacres. Tormented by armed guards\, Arakel doesn’t grasp what’s happening until they strip his family of food\, water\, and their meager possessions and force them across the Euphrates River\, where bloated corpses float by. He has crosse d into the land of the dead. In a desperate struggle to survive\, Arakel m ust rely on people of different faiths and backgrounds-Bedouins\, Kurds\, Arab camel drivers\, Turks\, Germans\, even a wandering dervish-people he considers enemies-but how can he trust them?\n\n\n\nIn a barbaric world\, he confronts what lies deep within the human heart. With an elegance reaff irming our collective humanity\, The Kaleidoscope of Destiny reveals the c ourage\, hope\, and ingenuity to survive the darkest of times during an of ten-overlooked part of history and will resonate in today’s challenges.\ n\nBefore publishing her debut novel\, The Kaleidoscope of Destiny\, Sar ah Ignatius worked for many years as a human rights lawyer and as a nonpro fit executive director. She taught immigration and asylum law at Boston Co llege Law School for many years and is the coauthor of Immigration Law and the Family. She also authored a detailed report on the US asylum system f or Harvard Law School’s National Asylum Study Project\, and her legal ar ticles have appeared in the Harvard Human Rights Journal\, Georgetown Immi gration Law Journal\, Benders Immigration Bulletin\, and Immigration Brief ings. Ignatius has received recognition from the New England Society of Ch ildren’s Books Writers &\; Illustrators and the National League of Am erican Pen Women as well as Glimmer Train\, and was selected as a Somervil le Arts Council Literature Artist Fellow. Ignatius graduated from Stanford University and Georgetown University Law Center. She is of Armenian desce nt and lives in Massachusetts with her family.\n\nArpi Sarafian holds a P h.D. from the University of Southern California and a B.A. and M.A. from t he American University of Beirut. She was a lecturer in English Language a nd Literature at the California State University\, Los Angeles from 1978 t o retirement in 2014. Sarafian has also taught at the California State Uni versity\, Dominguez Hills and at Loyola Marymount University. She has publ ished articles in The Armenian Observer\, Ararat Literary Quarterly\, T he Armenian Mirror-Spectator\, Armenian International Magazine (AIM)\, Vir ginia Woolf Miscellany\, Publication of the Modern Language Association (P MLA)\, Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies (JSAS) and the Los Ang eles Times. She is the author of\, Endless Crossings: Reflections on Arm enian Art and Culture in Los Angeles and The Second Endless Crossings: R eflections on Armenian Art and Culture. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://abrilbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/1 0/igatius-event.jpg LOCATION:Center for Armenian Arts\, 250 N. Orange St.\, Glendale\, CA\, 912 03\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=250 N. Orange St.\, Glendal e\, CA\, 91203\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Center for Armen ian Arts:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR