You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y2JM8YH |
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| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. One of the most anticipated books of 2017 - Entertainment Weekly and BustleA searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from a critically acclaimed, best-selling National Book Award winner. The result is this stunning memoir. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is a powerful account of a complicated relationship, an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance.. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: He wrote. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine - growing up dirt poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents
I actually don't have any idea what to say I'm rarely at a loss for words in reviews. I don't review frequently, but always review passionately, and "passion" usually comes easily for me. But though I feel as passionately about this book as I've ever felt about any other, my words have failed me anyway. I want, so much, to describe the way this . This is unlike any other memoir I've ever picked up Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian writer from Wellpinit, Washington, where he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He is best known for such titles as THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN and FLIGHT. He has written crit. You Don't Have to Love This Memoir, But You Just Might Jerome Gentes Until this book, I'd only read Alexie's THE LONE RANGE AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN and heard him speak at an authors' panel. I knew that he was something of a gadfly, in that he is unabashedly Native yet contemporary. I wasn't prepared for how astonishing and powerful this memoir is--reading it was li