Pete Najarian's Mutual in Love Divine is a narrative composed of sixteen episodes around the theme of what the Buddha called in The First Noble Truth, "old age, sickness and death," and the path to awakening. In the meantime, it is a story of his family and his friends who have died, and its background is the Armenian Genocide in his family history. It is also a story of his becoming a writer and a painter and the healing powers of the creative imagination. Najarian sings a lyrical prose and its energy moves with unerring sensitivity, while the illustrations of his remarkable painting are integral to his narrative. Here in this book he is at the height of his powers Pete Najarian is a passionate and idealistic American author, painter, basketball player and substitute teacher who resides in Berkeley, California.