{"product_id":"black-dog-of-fate-a-memoir","title":"Black Dog Of Fate: A Memoir","description":"Winner of the PEN\/Albrand Award\nA New York Times Notable Book\n\nFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a memoir of family secrets, survival, and growing up in the shadow of the Armenian genocide\n\n“A fascinating and affecting memoir….Written with great sensitivity, Black Dog of Fate is at once a family memoir, a history of the extermination of the Armenians in Turkey, and the story of a young man’s passage into adulthood.”—New York Times Book Review\n\nIn this prize-winning classic memoir, New York Times-bestselling author Peter Balakian explores his suburban childhood and charts his slow uncovering of the truth of what happened to his family during the Armenian Genocide. In describing his awakening to the facts of history, Balakian introduces us to a remarkable family of matriarchs and merchants, physicians, a bishop, and his aunts, two well-known figures in the world of literature. The unforgettable central figure of the story is Balakian's grandmother, a survivor and widow of the Genocide who speaks in fragments of metaphor and myth as she cooks up Armenian delicacies, plays the stock market, and keeps track of the baseball stats of her beloved Yankees. The book is infused with the intense and often comic collision between this family's ancient Near Eastern traditions and the American pop culture of the '50s and '60s.\n\nBalakian moves with ease from childhood memory, to history, to his ancestors' lives, to the story of his own coming of age. Written with power and grace, Black Dog of Fate is a tale of survival against enormous odds.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0465010199\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0465010199.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Balakian, Peter\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41567060983866,"sku":"DBV.0465010199.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0465010199-0.jpg?v=1785387825","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/black-dog-of-fate-a-memoir","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}