{"product_id":"black-dog-of-fate-isbn-9780465010196","title":"Black Dog Of Fate","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Albrand Award\u003cbr\u003e A\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a memoir of family secrets, survival, and growing up in the shadow of the Armenian genocide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A fascinating and affecting memoir….Written with great sensitivity, \u003ci\u003eBlack Dog of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this prize-winning classic memoir, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Balakian 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, \u003ci\u003eBlack Dog of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of survival against enormous odds.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891814822117,"sku":"NP9780465010196","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/b975f1a5-1a6d-4560-8843-ab0200f9f9ed.jpg?v=1767837226","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/black-dog-of-fate-isbn-9780465010196","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}