Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past
The author of four volumes of verse, Peter Balakian writes with the precision of a poet and the  lyricism of a privileged suburban child in 1950s New Jersey. He is shadowed by his relatives' carefully  guarded memories of past trauma: the brutal Turkish extermination in 1915 of more than a million  Armenians, including most of his maternal grandmother's family. Balakian seamlessly interweaves personal  and historical material to depict one young man's reclamation of his heritage and to scathingly indict the  political forces that conspired to sweep under the rug the 20th century's first genocide.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.