"This one is about a man who was in on the founding of the first major art movement to originate in the United States, Abstract Expressionism, and unfortunate choice of materials. He is Rabo Karabekian, a minor character in Breakfast of Champions, whose parents survived the first attempted genocide of this century, the slaughter by Turkey of its Armenian citizens before the First World War." - Kurt Vonnegut April 1, 1987