A New Yorker and successful magazine editor but with a past, Eleni Gage returns to the village where her father Nicholas was born -- and her grandmother murdered. Her down-to-earth account of rebuilding her family home in remote Epiros (the mountainous region of Northwest Greece on the border with Albania) continues a family story begun by her father 20 years ago. She opens her memoir with a village celebration of the completion of her house and the traditions surrounding the event.  (GRE255, $13.95)