This outstanding collection from seventeen first generation Armenian American writers, each introduced by a writer of the second generation is intense, magical and filled with the love of life. The Anthology includes the writing of William Saroyan, Michael J. Arlen, A.I. Bezzerides and fourteen more of the best Armenian American writers of the first generation. Accompanying the selections are essays about each of the writers by contemporary second generation writers, including Mark Arax, Aris Janigian, Aram Saroyan and David Stephen Calonne.