Dog flowers : a memoir

Summary: "After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation. Geller masterfully intertwines wrenching prose with archival documents to create a deeply moving narrative of loss and inheritance that pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, and the family we are given, and the ones we choose"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781984820396
ISBN: 1984820397
ISBN: 9781984820402
Physical Description: print
260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : One World, [2021]

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Subject:

Geller, Danielle
Geller, Danielle Family
Navajo Indians Biography
Mothers and daughters
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
Navajo Indians

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