Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers

Forging identity from loss first-generation Armenian American writing This superior collection of ethnic literature deals with first-generation Armenian [American] writers whose parents brought them to the New World before and after the horrifying massacres of 1915 18. Times Literary Supplement This outstanding collection of literature from seventeen first-generation Armenian American authors, each introduced by a member of the second generation, is intense, magical, and filled with the love of life. Forgotten Bread includes the writing of William Saroyan, Michael J. Arlen, A. I. Bezzerides, and others. Accompanying the selections are essays by contemporary writers including Mark Arax, Aris Janigian, Aram Saroyan, and David Stephen Calonne. Child, you were and you learned to be. For a while, Armenian was a wish you could not fathom. It is still a sea and we fish in it for food with the bait of forgotten bread. From With the Bait of Bread, Helene Pilibosian