A powerful memoir of coming-of-age and growing cultural identity. When Peter Balakian was growing up in suburban New Jersey in the 1950s, he knew little of his Armenian heritage except that it was the source of his family's many tasty meals. As he grew into an adult, he learned of his grandmother's escape from the genocide of 1915, and was awakened to the horrors that lay in his family's past.  (CCS12, $15.95)