Disturbing the peace: Journey to Virginland, a powerful American novel, pushes the boundaries of contemporary literature

Los Angeles, Sept. 28 — With the forthcoming publication of Journey to Virginland, a new novel by American author Armen Melikian, contemporary literature gains a highly original voice and an irrepressibly spirited work that helps expand the core assumptions of the novelistic enterprise. In an age of increasing specialization, when much of contemporary literature has in turn become a stultified field of “boutique” works which cater to their own narrow niches of readership, Journey to Virginland establishes itself as a thinking person’s novel that not only enchants with a ripping yarn, but